In Hiroshima we stayed at a peace centre called the World Friendship Centre. Our hosts there arranged for a guided tour of the Peace Park for us, as well as an interview (1 1/2 hours) with a hibakusha (A-bomb survivor). The lady we met was named Okada san and her story is so sad. She was just a young girl on August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima and the story of her experiences that day, and during the following months, is tragic. She is passionate about peace and nuclear disarmament and we learned so much from her. After touring the museum we encountered many more moving and tragic stories, and came away digesting a lot of information and emotion about what happened in this now-beautiful and peaceful city. The girls began folding paper cranes in Hiroshima and Cora would like to fold 1,000 (just like Sadako, the young girl who died of leukemia in Hiroshima at the age of 12 in 1955).
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