A paper crane folded by Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who died of leukemia a decade after the attack, was donated Saturday to a memorial exhibition on the U.S. battleship Missouri at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.Hoping for a better future, Sadako, a peace icon, folded more than a thousand origami cranes while undergoing treatment. She died at the age of 12 in 1955.The crane, which symbolizes good fortune in Japan, will be displayed on the battleship, on which Japan formally surrendered to the Allied powers bringing World War II to an end in September 1945. The U…READ FULL ARTICLE
