Why did they want to erect a gravestone in sadako’s memory?
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Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl, who was born on 7th January 1943. She survived the horrific atomic bomb dropped by the American on 6th August 1945 on Hiroshima. She was then only 2 years old and lived next to the Misasa Bridge where the bomb was dropped.
Though she survived the atomic bomb incident, soon the aftermath of this bomb started its effect on her health. She was soon admitted to the hospital with many complications. On 25th October 1955 she did after battling with malignant lymph gland leukemia.
During her days in hospital she set a goal of folding 1,000 cranes. It was believed that by doing so the folder wish could be granted.She however could manage to do fold 664 cranes.
Her friends and schoolmates on her death published letters to raise funds in order to build a memorial for her and for children who had succumbed to the effects of the atomic bomb. Sasaki`s statute holding a golden crane was built in 1958 which was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. She was considered a symbol of the effects of the atomic bomb and her stories are still narrated in some schools of Japan on the day of the Hiroshima bombing.
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Sadako Sasaki was an example of innocent victim of the American atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima.
Explanation:
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl. At the age of two she was victimized to atomic radiation that induced by the Hiroshima bombing. She was only two while she survived the bombing that happened in 1945 and continued past to live until the age of 12.
After some years of hospitalization, when she was 12, she started to fold origami cranes following an inspiration from a fictional story that said folding one thousand origami cranes will give her a chance to make a wish or cure her disease.
She folded almost 644 cranes until her death that came in 1955. The remaining cranes were folded by her friend.
A statue was erected instead of a gravestone for her at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.