Sadako Sasaki

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. She changed her prayer to a wish for world piece and that never again would an atomic bomb be dropped on a city. When she died Sadako had folded over 1500 paper cranes. The children of Japan heard of Sadako's story and started making cranes. They collected money and in 1958 a monument of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park Every year on November 17thWorld peace day, thousands of people send cranes to be placed at Sadako's monument. ... Sadako-Sasaki Hiroshima ...