Monday, August 6, at 5 PM in the Peace Garden of St. John’s Church, 61 Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ, a Sadako* Peace memorial ceremony for the remembrance of the dead and injured of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with special speakers, Union County Freeholder Adrian Mapp and Peace and A Sustainable Future author, Alice Slater
*Sadako was a two-year-old girl when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Ten years
later she developed leukemia. Japanese legend holds that one’s wish will be granted upon folding 1,000 paper
(origami) cranes. Sadako folded 646 before dying. She wrote, “I will write peace on your wings, and you will fly
all over the world.” Her friends finished folding the cranes in her memory. The paper crane has become a global
symbol of peace, and a statue of Sadako now stands in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.