CSPAN3 Reel America A Thousand Cranes - The Children Of Hiroshima - 1962 July 12, 2024
In japan, there is an old belief that a crane can move for 1,000 years. If you fold 1,000 paper cranes, they will protect you from illness. After the bomb fell on hiroshima, august 6th, 1945, the people folded paper cranes. Today in hiroshima, men, women, and children are still folding paper cranes. Especially children. For they are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. Whats it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war . These children look like children anywhere. But the park they are playing in is called the peace park. The monument is behind them is the ceno...