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In Japan, Hiroshima is remembered with another bird: the origami crane. The tradition has its roots in the story of Sadoka, a young Japanese girl who died from Leukemia following the destruction of her home town. Sadoka chose to spend her final weeks making origami cranes, a traditional symbol of love, peace and longevity.  Legend had it that if you folded 1000 cranes, you would get your wish. Sadoka had folded over 600 cranes towards her wish to live, when she succumbed to the "atomic bomb disease."  Japanese schoolchildren quickly finished off the rest of the 1,000 cranes with a new wish: that the world would find peace and the atrocities of Hiroshima would never be repeated.  These original 1,000 cranes are kept in a museum on the grounds of the Peace Park in Hiroshima, but many more cranes are folded every year to seek fulfillment of the wish for peace.

You can carry on that tradition by folding your own origami dove in memory of the Rainbow Warrior's quest.  Each fold is accompanied by a step you can take toward peace.