Original cranes from Hiroshima donated to Truman Library

Masahiro Sasaki (C) attends a lecture meeting with Clifton Truman Daniel (L), grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, in Independence, Missouri, on Nov. 19, 2015. Sasaki donated original origami cranes made by his sister Sadako, who died from radiation disease following the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima at age 12 while striving to make 1,000 such paper cranes, to the Truman Library there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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