Hiroshima children call for peace

Hiroshima children call for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Junior high school students offer paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, prior to the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. The monument was built in memory of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the bombing at age two and died ten years later with leukemia, and other young victims.

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