Let’s Read 1 A Mother’s Lullaby

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On May 27, 16, a man visited Hiroshima and gave a speech at the city's Peace Memorial Park.

He began, “Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.”

The man's name is Barack Obama. He became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. It meant a lot to the city, to Japan, and to the world.

Before the speech, Obama visited the museum there. In its guest book, he left these words:

We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.

He also left two paper cranes there. They were folded by Obama himself.

Obama closed his speech by saying, “The world was forever changed here.

But today, the children of this city will go through their day in peace.

What a precious thing that is!

It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child.”