THE WORLD WILL NOTE THAT THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA, A MILITARY BASE. THAT WAS BECAUSE WE WISHED IN THE FIRST ATTACK TO AVOID, INSOFAR AS POSSIBLE, THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS.

-Harry S. Truman, in a speech from the White House, Aug 9,1945.

Is this quote tell us the truth?

• Answer is simple NO.

In truth many people died not just from the initial explosion, but also from the After math some even years later. Many people men, women and even children who were exposed to radiation developed, what they called?

“Atomic Bomb disease” or leukemia. One such person was a young girl by the name of Sadako Sasaki. She was born on January 7,1943. She lived near Misaca Bridge in Hiroshima Japan. She was only 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima on August 6, 1945.As she grew up, Sadako was a strong, courageous and athletic girl However, in 1955 at age 11, while practicing for a big race, she became dizzy and fell to the ground. Sadako as diagnosed with “the atomic bomb disease.”

While in the hospital Sadako’s best friend told her of an old japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that gods would grant her a wish to get well so that she could run again. After a while the hospital the realization came to her that she was not going to get better so she changed her wish, and wished for would peace and unity between  all.

I WILL WRITE PEACE ON YOUR WINGS AND YOU WILL FLY ALL OVER THE WORLD.

-SADAKO SASAKI-

She started to work on the paper cranes and completed 644 only before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age 12 and than her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her.

 

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