Facts about Sadako Sasaki 3 ground zero Sadako's location was only 12 miles or 2 km from the ground zero when the nuclear bombing took place She was at home Facts about Sadako Sasaki 4 after the bombing When the bombing took place, Sadako was blown out of the window At first, her mother thought that Sadako was dead and went to lookSadako Sasaki was a twelveyearold girl living in Hiroshima, Japan in 1955 She loved school and she loved sports She liked making picture books, and she had won the City's 100meter race for twelveyearolds One day Sadako became sick and ended up in the hospital where she was diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer of the blood The Story of Sadako Sasaki and the Hiroshima Peace Cranes Sadako was two years old, and two kilometres away from the atomic bomb when it was dropped on Hiroshima Most of Sadako's neighbors died, but Sadako wasn't injured at all, at least not in any way people could see Up until the time Sadako was in the seventh grade (1955) she
