Subject: [Origami] An Origami gift [email protected] wrote: Read the story here http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/27/1000-cranes-hiroshima-obama-adds-two-more/85047490/
I know I've written this before, but it was some time ago... Many years ago at a Nippon Origami Association convention in Hiroshima, I was asked to interpret (in my very poor Japanese) for a group of foreign attendees, including the late Michael Shall, invited to meet the then Mayor of Hiroshima. It was a very moving encounter, but one thing that stuck in my memory was the mayor explaining how they received thousands of chains of origami cranes that they had to dump in the trash as they simply couldn't cope with the volume. He implored us to go back to our respective countries, and ask our children to keep folding cranes in the memory of Sadako, but to then display them at places of peace within our own countries. I took this message to heart, and have had several groups of children make the traditional 'thousand origami cranes' (often out of scrap/recycled paper), but then send them to peace memorials across Australia rather than Hiroshima, thus sharing the message of hope and peace much further. Cheers Clare, Western Australia
