Give Peace a Chance

Today we went to Coventry Cathedral having been over towards the city on a quest for a new waterproof jacket for LooseCanon.

Sadako was a little girl from Hiroshima. She developed leukaemia following the dropping of the atomic bomb. The nurses looking after the sick children made paper origami figures out of the wrappers from the children's medicine. Sadako's favourite was the crane, a Japanese symbol of hope.

A Japanese legend says that anyone who folds, hopefully and faithfully, a thousand cranes will have their wishes granted. Sadako wished for recovery for herself, but when this was not possible she wished for peace for victims of war.

' I will write Peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world'


She folded 644 cranes before she died at the age of twelve. Japanese children then began to fold cranes and send them to Hiroshima. They are housed in a memorial there, a Peace Tower.
These paper cranes at Coventry cathedral were a gift from the children of Hiroshima.