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Most people around the world want peace. We want our governments to work together to reduce and ultimately eliminate weapons of mass destruction – especially nuclear weapons. But many people don’t know what they can do to make a difference. Some even despair of making any progress towards peace. |
Yet history is full of seemingly impossible goals which became achievable because people made their voices heard. The Vietnam War ended after public pressure. Global warming is now very much on the political agenda in Washington because of public pressure. Peace can rise to the top of the priority scale, too.
You can make a difference. And we can change the course of the world.
Here’s an easy way to start.:
Send a Message or Prayer of Peace. It will take you about 60 seconds, maybe a little longer. All you have to do is follow this link to our website: www.wagingpeace.org/sadako_message.htm
Next month, we will hold our 13th Annual Sadako Peace Day. Your message of peace will become part of our annual recognition of the Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who inspired efforts toward peace around the world – even as she was dying from the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
This is what the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will do with your message:
- List it on our website. Read some of the messages we’ve already received.
- Choose a selection of messages to read at our Sadako Peace Day Ceremony on August 9th.
- Send all the messages of peace we receive to the President of the United States of America.
In this way, you can follow Sadako’s inspiration, and write out your hopes for peace so they may fly all over the world (via the Internet). See Sadako’s story.
People often ask us how they can increase the peace. Sadako showed us one way. She never relinquished her hope for a better world. All we need to do is follow her lead.
One voice can become a powerful force for change when it joins millions of others all seeking the same thing.
Thank you for your time,
Steven Crandell
Director of Development & Public Affairs
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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P.S. Go ahead. Try sending a message of peace. You’ll find it a refreshing feeling to affirm what you feel in your heart. Just follow this link.
For more information about the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, see www.wagingpeace.org/menu/about.