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The Hiroshima Day Commemoration was a very moving event. We rehearsed in the freezing cold outside David Jones.\"Practicing<\/a><\/p>\n

The choir sang Blowing in the Wind, Ode to Joy and We Shall Overcome, joined by a number of extra choristers.\"Illlawarra<\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone present tied a paper crane to a memorial branch which was left in the Mall as a reminder of story of Sadako, and her 1000 paper cranes. Sadako was two years old at the time of the bombing and died at the age of 12 from leukemia she contracted as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Before she died, she made 1000 paper cranes; a Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds one thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish.\"Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Hiroshima Day Commemoration was a very moving event. We rehearsed in the freezing cold outside David Jones. The choir sang Blowing in the Wind, Ode to Joy and We Shall Overcome, joined by a number of extra choristers. 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