Children vow to promote peace at statue of A-bomb victim

Children vow to promote peace at statue of A-bomb victim

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Children pledge to promote peace at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 28 in an annual memorial service for a girl who made 1,000 paper cranes for peace while in hospital following her exposure to radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the bomb was dropped by the United States and later died at age 12 in hospital. A statue to commemorate her was built in 1958.

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