The featured speaker at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 18th Annual Sadako Peace Day ceremony was Kikuko Otake, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the author of Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.
The event marked the 67th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by commemorating the life of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and developed leukemia ten years later due to radiation from the bomb. Sadako attempted to bring about her wish for world peace by folding 1,000 paper cranes. The paper crane has become a global symbol of peace, and a statue of Sadako now stands in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Special thanks to our generous group of Sadako’s Champions for supporting our efforts to inspire a generation for peace:
Nancy and Jerar Andon
William and Mona Chapin
Stan and Mary Fitzgerald
Ann and Jeff Frank
Fred and Linda Gluck
Anna and David Grotenhuis
Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy Hara
Stephen and Misa Kelly
Barry Ladendorf
Allen R. LeCours
Linda and Jacob Locker
Leslie and Peter MacDougall
Lessie Nixon Schontzler Travis and Maritza Wilson Peter Yarrow
To learn more about our Inspire-a-Generation effort, click here.
Bob Sedivy plays the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese bamboo flute.
Paper cranes from all around the world hang in the Sadako Peace Garden at La Casa de Maria.
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