It was indeed a proud moment for my 4 scouts and me to represent Fiji at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree and then come back and report about the Jamboree highlights to our friends and fellow scouts in Fiji. Likewise, what really inspired and touched my heart and my 4 boys was the fact when we visited the Hiroshima Bomb Site and the museum to discover what had happened on that dreadful day of August 6th. A one-day off-site programme to Hiroshima provided opportunity for my 4 boys and me to learn from the events of 1945. We visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park including the museum. As 2015 was the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of cities in Japan, we were given opportunity for one of the scouts to represent Fiji Scouts to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. In addition to this memorable visit, I was also very touched and astonished to discover about the folding paper cranes - the story behind this. A fictional retelling of the story of Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States, Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. She was at home when the explosion occurred, about one mile from Ground Zero. In November 1954, when Sadako was 12 she developed swellings on her neck and behind her ears. In January 1955, purple spots had formed on her legs. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukemia (her mother referred to it as "an atom bomb disease"). She was hospitalized on February 21, 1955, and given, at the most, a year to live. After being diagnosed with leukemia from the radiation, Sadako spent her time in a hospital folding origami paper cranes in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. In this retelling of her story, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died on the morning of 25 October 1955. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako. However, the claim in the book that Sadako "died before completing the 1000 cranes, and her friends completed the task, placing the finished cranes in her casket" is not backed up by her surviving family members. According to her family, and especially her older brother Masahiro Sasaki who speaks on his sister's life at events, Sadako not only exceeded 644 cranes, she exceeded her goal of 1000 and died having folded approximately 1,400 paper cranes. After her death, Sadako's friends and schoolmates published a collection of letters in order to raise funds to build a memorial to her and all of the children who had died from the effects of the atomic bomb. In 1958, a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also called the Genbaku Dome, and installed in the Hiroshima Peace Park. At the foot of the statue is a plaque that reads: "This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth." Every year on Obon Day, which is a holiday in Japan to remember the departed spirits of one's ancestors, thousands of people leave paper cranes near the statue. As such, I shared this visit and memorable stories with my fellow scout leaders during the Scout Leaders Stage 4 Training course in Lautoka from 16th August to 22nd August.