Hiroshima Day
Aug. 6th, 2007 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkittyRather than preach at you or show you horrifying pictures of blast victims you've probably already seen, I'll give you a rendition of "Sadako"
Sadako Sasaki, born in 1943, was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. She was known for her love of sports, but on the day of a big race in 1955, she collapsed and was subsequently diagnosed with "Atom Bomb Disease" - leukemia. Her friend told her of a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako folded over 1000 paper cranes before she died on October 25, 1955.
Her friends and classmates published a book of her letters and young people all over Japan formed a movement and collected the funds to build a peace monument in her honor at Hiroshima. Since then, the paper crane has become a symbol of peace.
There is also a statue of Sadako (that I have actually seen) at the Peace Park in Seattle, WA.
Here you go, a music video, Sadako
Sadako Sasaki, born in 1943, was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. She was known for her love of sports, but on the day of a big race in 1955, she collapsed and was subsequently diagnosed with "Atom Bomb Disease" - leukemia. Her friend told her of a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako folded over 1000 paper cranes before she died on October 25, 1955.
Her friends and classmates published a book of her letters and young people all over Japan formed a movement and collected the funds to build a peace monument in her honor at Hiroshima. Since then, the paper crane has become a symbol of peace.
There is also a statue of Sadako (that I have actually seen) at the Peace Park in Seattle, WA.
Here you go, a music video, Sadako
