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On the morning of August 6th, air-raid sirens sounded just after 7:00 AM. After a while, the all-clear sounded, and people began to move about their daily lives again. Sadako, her grandmother, her mother, and brother Masahiro were eating breakfast together. Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old on August 6th.
A blinding flash, then a thunderous blast attacked the family.
The walls of the house toppled, and Sadako and the others were thrown. Fires were igniting here and there. Someone helped the family into a small, decrepit boat to save them from the fires. Though only four at the time, Masahiro remembers desperately bailing water.
Several years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonation, physicians started documenting high rates of cancer among those who survived the initial blast. By 1955, Sadako started suffering the first symptoms of leukemia and her prognosis was that she had a year left to live.
There is an ancient Japanese legend that promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane. As doctors tended to Sadako’s illness, she set out to take her fate into her own hands and started to fold origami cranes. After Sadako died, later in 1955, her classmates finished folding the cranes so she could be buried with the 1,000 cranes.
We have a responsibility to ensure that we remember Sadako’s story and learn from the mistakes of the past to ensure that this never happens again.
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