Today We visited Hiroshima peace park. When we got there we visited the Sadako statue. Sadako is a true story about a girl that got sick from radiation from the atomic bomb that the Americans dropped on Hiroshima when she was a baby. Sadako had an illness called leukemia, which is a form of cancer. Sadako's good friend told Sadako a story about someone that got there wish after they folded one thousand cranes. So sadako folded crane after crane bestowing her wish to get better on each and every crane until she had folded ONE THOUSAND cranes! But Sadako did not overcome her battle against leukima and soon died.
Her classmates decided to honor Sadako by building statue of her holding a giant crane. People still make cranes to hang at Sadako's statue. And I decided to make cranes to hang too!
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| making cranes to take to Sadako |
After hanging our cranes, we headed to Hiroshima peace memorial museum. Inside were displays of clothing, toys and buildings that were destroyed by the bomb. The museum was really interesting but also very sad. Today we had a great outing I really learned a lot and it was an amazing experience but I would not recommend the museum for very young children.
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