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Sadako Sasaki Sadako was born on Janurary 7th, 1943 in Hiroshima near the Misasa Bridge. An atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the mid-1940's. Sadako was only 2 years old when the atomic bomb of Hiroshima first dropped on August 6th, 1945. She was at home when it first dropped, about 1 mile from ground zero. Buildings were torn down, wood was everywhere, it was terrible. The first site from her leukaemia was 9-10 years lafter the bomb dropped, on November 1954. She had a cold and lumps on her neck and the back of her ears, slowly moving toward her face. Then, not long after, she had diagnosed leukaemia, and had purple spots on her legs on January 1955. She was hospitalized on Febuary 21, 1955. Her friend came over and told Sadako an old Japanese legend that whoever had folded 1,000 paper cranes, thou will be granted a wish. She did so, but had never succeeded herself, making only around 644. She died on October 25, 1955., at the age of 12 Sadako's friends helped her finish the 1,000 paper cranes, and carried on folding them. The Japanese had built a memorial dedicated to her, called the Sadako Sasaki Memorial, with Sadako and a golden crane on top. Inscribed in the bottom reads: 'This is our cry, This is our Prayer, Peace to the World' Her last words were: 'It's good'...
gerardrules added this comment 2008-12-06 22:42:33-06:00
[ meaning i think what happened was terrible]
gerardrules added this comment 2008-12-06 22:41:42-06:00
can anyone else use a different adjective besides 'sad'? anyway, HOW TERRIBLE!!
hippeeman2468 added this comment 2008-10-18 15:15:15-05:00
It better be a sad story!
hippeeman2468 added this comment 2008-10-22 16:13:32-05:00
Obviously it's sad, but what do they know??? Read it! It's factual
zarree576 added this comment 2008-10-17 23:28:28-05:00
That was a really, really, really, really, really sad story!
gerardrules added this comment 2008-12-06 22:42:33-06:00
[ meaning i think what happened was terrible]
gerardrules added this comment 2008-12-06 22:41:42-06:00
can anyone else use a different adjective besides 'sad'? anyway, HOW TERRIBLE!!
hippeeman2468 added this comment 2008-10-18 15:15:15-05:00
It better be a sad story!
hippeeman2468 added this comment 2008-10-22 16:13:32-05:00
Obviously it's sad, but what do they know??? Read it! It's factual
zarree576 added this comment 2008-10-17 23:28:28-05:00
That was a really, really, really, really, really sad story!
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