Flame from Hiroshima A-bombed ruins to be used at Pearl Harbor ceremony

A symbolic flame kept alive since the aftermath of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima will be installed at a memorial in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at a ceremony next month, a family member of an iconic atomic-bomb victim recently revealed.The plan to split the "flame of peace" and bring it to a site related to the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack was proposed by the kin of Sadako Sasaki in a bid to foster lasting peace between Japan and the United States. Sasaki died at age 12 of radiation-induced leukemia a decade after the atomic bombing of the western Japan city.The flame will be transporte…READ FULL ARTICLE