The Children's Peace Monument is probably the most inspiring in Hiroshima's Peace Park.  At the top of the 9-meter monument is a bronze statue of Sadako Sasaki who was exposed to radiation from the A-Bomb when she was just 2 years old.  Ten years later she developed leukemia, which eventually claimed her life.  While she was sick and being treated, she believed that if she could fold 1,000 paper cranes she would recover completely.  Despite folding all of those cranes, she lost her battle.  Her statue is depicted holding up a giant bronze crane, and in the glass booths around the memorial are thousands of colorful paper cranes folded by the children of Japan in her memory.