Residents fold over ten thousand cranes for peace in Hiroshima
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Residents of the Mitaki Himawari care facility in Hiroshima, Japan, folded more than 10,000 paper cranes to express their wish for peace, and presented them at the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Ninety-six-year-old atomic bomb survivor, Teruko Ueno, asked her fellow residents to join her in the project. They spent a year creating the colorful cranes and stringing them together.
Ueno, a former nursing student at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital during the bombing, continued to honor those lost after the war. The group delivered four bundles of cranes with messages written by the residents, including the statement, “Peace cannot be maintained by force. Peace can only be achieved through understanding.” Last year, they donated approximately 4,000 cranes to mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing.
