I met Sadako Sasaki
Sadako was two years old when she was exposed to the A-bomb, but she grew into a strong and healthy girl.
Nine years later, she suddenly contracted leukemia. Somehow, she was convinced that if she would succeed in folding a thousand paper cranes, they would help her to recover.
Eight months later Sadako flew away on her thousand cranes.
08:15 August 6 1945 Hiroshima
Sadako's death triggered a movement to build a monument to all the children who perished due to the atomic bomb: The Children's Peace Monument.
In the still warm days of October, thousands of students take field trips to Hiroshima to understand something that cannot be understood, and never will.
Today, Hiroshima has reborn from the ashes. Its people are looking to a future of peace, tolerance and understanding. Their message is strong: we paid an extreme price but now we are at peace, we now demand you to be at peace, let us be a living memory for all the future generations.
Sadako was not the only child I met in Hiroshima.
I also met Takeko, who told me that she said to her Mum, to go to her little brother who was waiting for her. Go to him now, and let me go where Dad is!
Naoki speaking to his mother told her not to cry, he knew that the students could not survive such a great war... Mum do good to other people!
Hitoshi recalled that... My friends and I walked into the river, then someone said that we all may die soon. We sang songs all together. I wanted to drink the river's water but I did not as it was full of oil floating.
It's two minutes to midnight. Are you listening?
