what was the signifigance of the paper crane during WWII???

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Answer 1

http://www.pacificfriend.ca/html/one_thousand_paper_cranes.html This site will give you the story of the Japanese girl during the time of WWII. It is a touching story.

Answer 2

It's actually a POST WWII story: Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who developed leukemia at age eleven as a result of exposure to atomic radiation when she was two years old, began folding paper cranes in observance of a Japanese belief that the gods will grant a wish to anyone who folds 1000 cranes. Although she died a year later, her friends took up the mission, and the paper crane has become a symbol of the hope for world peace. The site below tells the story far more movingly than this summary.