Give peace a chance...
Wednesday 6 August is a day marked in history with mourning and regret. Forty-one years ago on that day, 200,000 people lost their lives in an instant, when the first atomic bomb, "little boy'\ was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. A few days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Thousands of people lost their lives later from radiation sickness and fallout. Amongst them was a young Japanese girl who, as she was dying, attempted to fold 1000 paper cranes. The Japanese believed that producing 1000 cranes made from paper would restore health to an ailing body.
It is unfortunate that she died before she completed her task. The paper crane is now the symbol of peace and is also a sy mbol of remembrance for Hiroshima. Ohakune School pupils commemorated Hiroshima Day by folding paper cranes and delivering them to businesses in Ohakune. Mayor Bill Taylor, was presented with a huge silver crane that is now hanging in the Public Library. The business owners were happy to accept the peace symbols, which are now displayed in most shops as a recognition of Hiroshima Day, and also a realisation of the universal hope for world peace.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 11, 12 August 1986, Page 1
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202Give peace a chance... Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 11, 12 August 1986, Page 1
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