sadako sasaki had leukemia as a result of the bombing.pray for recovery, she folded thousands of paper cranes. ten years after the exposure, she died. a statue modeled on the girl stands in the children's peace monument in hiroshima. it broke begley's heart that japanese children also suffered terrible experiences during the war. last year, begley visited japan. he was a guest of the japanese ministry of foreign affairs. they invited people whom the japanese army imprisoned. during the trip, begley felt a strong desire to visit the elementary school that the girl had attended. while the australian was there, he heard "the day the paper cranes fly," sadako's prayer in song. >> the children of the school sang a most beautiful song. and the children of japan used that song as their wish that there would be peace. >> reporter: after returning home he started telling local children about sadako. >> it was kind of sad about the girl dying, but she went to a lot of trouble making all those paper cranes. so yeah, it was a nice story. >> i thought