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Bearing the Message of Peace
Ode Magazine 
August 15th, 2011
Sadako Sasaki (January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of attempting to fold a thousand origami cranes before her death, a wish which was memorialized in popular culture.
Sadako’s story has become famous all over the world as a little one who wished for, prayed for, peace. There is a legend in Japan that if one folds one thousand paper cranes, a crane will grant one wish. Sadako wished to be healed from her leukemia and for peace on earth. She viewed the 644 cranes she did fold as messengers.
“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world,” she said.
In fact, Sadako’s cranes, in the form of her story, have borne the message of peace on their wings and flown all over the world. They continue to do so up to present day.
Never let it be underestimated what one clear intention can do.
[Source: Ode Magazine]

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