1000 paper cranes for peace

[proud2BlibKansan]

Students and faculty have been folding paper cranes at Avila University for weeks as a symbolic gesture for peace. On Monday, the cranes were threaded and hung at the campus chapel. (March 24, 2008 Video by: Chris Oberholtz)

http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=1787533

[The Spirit Of Radio]

1. Great idea!

:thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

3. LOL! Look at your name-how apropos! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. LOL

Glad you saw this :)

[babylonsister]

2. Very cool! I think you posted the wrong link-this is the one I found:

http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=1787533

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Sorry thanks for fixing it

:hi:

[countingbluecars]

6. I did this with my fourth graders

last year. Not all of the parents agreed with my politics, but who can argue with promoting peace?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. What a cool idea

I might try that. :)

[countingbluecars]

8. Are you familiar

with the book, The Faithful Elephants? My students were very touched by this book as it shows how war affects us all.

http://books.google.com/books?id=-2s2lhAZ46AC&dq=the+faithful+elephants&pg=PP1&ots=WjuWeRoDyI&sig=Q1GWr6pvVwmofhJZlttLJbcGYNE&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=the+faithful+elephants&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. No but I will definitely check it out.

Looks wonderful.

I so miss read alouds. All we do anymore is test and practice for the test. I decided that I am going to do a read aloud this week regardless of what else is happening. And this looks perfect! Thank you so much. :hi:

[spinbaby]

10. Last year I visited Hiroshima

In a backpack I took along paper cranes folded and strung on threads by the daughter of a friend. I hung them at the children's memorial with thousands of other strands of cranes. So many prayers for peace.

[Voice for Peace]

11. moving

"if you fold a thousand cranes your wish will come true"

[Jim Lane]

12. They are carrying on the work of Sadako Sasaki

was a Japanese girl who was a toddler in Hiroshima when we bombed it. In 1955 she was diagnosed with leukemia. She folded more than a thousand cranes, "spurred on by the Japanese saying that one who folded 1,000 cranes was granted a wish."

There is a statue of her in the . People still send folded paper cranes there to express their wish for peace.