The Children's Peace Monument (原爆の子の像, Genbaku no Ko no Zō?) is a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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“What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.”
—Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)
“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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