Visiting Hiroshima Peace Park & Museum

Dharma has been away for the year in Japan and Taiwan. She has forwarded the following report and photos to share with you. Thank you Dharma.

I went to Hiroshima to see some friends, but there is another reason I wanted to go there--- that was Hiroshima Peace Park and Museum. In the park , there is a Statue of Sadako. Sadako was a young girl who lived in Hiroshima from 1943 to 1955. She got leukemia from radiation. The radiation came from an atomic bomb. The bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima. Sadako believed that if she folded 1000 cranes, she would be cured and be able to run again. She had folded 641 paper cranes when she died on October 25, 1955. Her classmates helped fold up to 1000 cranes. So Sadako's wish was completed. Nowadays, people fold 1000 paper cranes and put them beneath the Statue of Sadako to wish for world peace. I am working on my cranes, too.