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Sadako Sasaki died from leukemia caused by the atomic bomb. Her classmates folded over 1,000 paper cranes for her funeral. Later, a statue was built in her honor at Hiroshima Peace Park holding a golden crane.

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Epilogue

Sadako Sasaki died from leukemia caused by the atomic bomb. Her classmates folded over 1,000 paper cranes for her funeral. Later, a statue was built in her honor at Hiroshima Peace Park holding a golden crane.

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EPILOGUE:

SADAKO SASAKI died on October 25, 1955.

Her classmates folded 356 cranes so that


1,000 were buried with Sadako. In a way
she got her wish. She will live on in the
hearts of people for a long time.

After the funeral the bamboo class


collected Sadako’ s letters and her
journal and published them in a book. They
called it Kokeshi, after the doll they had
given to Sadako while she was in the
hospital. The book was sent around Japan
and soon everyone knew about Sadako
and her thousand paper cranes.

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Sadako’s friends began to dream of
building a monument to her and all
children who were killed by the atom bomb.
Young people throughout the country helped
collect money for
the project. Finally their dream came
true. In 1958 the statue was unveiled in
the Hiroshima Peace Park. There is Sadako,
standing on top of a granite mountain of
paradise. She is holding a golden crane in
outstretched hands.

A Folded Crane Club was organized in her


honor. Members still place thousands of
paper cranes beneath Sadako’s statue on
August 6 — Peace Day. They make a wish,
too. Their wish is engraved on the base of
the statue:

This is our cry,


this is our prayer;
peace in the world.

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