Later, everyone remembered Sadako, still full of energy after reaching the top, leaping around like the Rabbit in the Moon.īut just a few weeks later, something was wrong.
Sadako and a few other girls raced ahead, past the Eternal Fire that had burned for over a thousand years. On Fall Sports Day, 1954, her class went on a field trip to Mount Misen. By then, Sadako was an athletic sixth grader.
