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 The Lansing Middle School Drama Club performed "A Thousand Cranes" March 28-31, 2012, directed by Audrey Hummel and Kimberly Williamson. As the students learned of the story about Sadako, a little girl that was their age, they wanted to fold 1000 origami cranes and send them to the Hiroshima Peace Park in honor of Sadako's dream of peace. The finale of the play talks about how the message of peace has been extended to other places in the world. |
Being a school in New York state, the students thought of "Ground Zero". The World Trade Center fell when these students were babies, and yet they still know about the tragedy and wanted to extend Sadako's message for peace to those affected by this tragedy and declare "This is our cry...This is our prayer...Peace in the world".
Only a child can state peace in the most profound way. The students of the Lansing Middle School Drama Club folded, strung and mailed 1,000 paper cranes to both Hiroshima, Japan and Ground Zero, NYC as a symbol of peace. Parents and community members helped by sponsoring cranes to be sent to each of the above named locations. May these origami cranes signify that the future generation from Lansing, New York desires world peace. It begins with a child and an origami crane.
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