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1. lala, on August 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am said:

   That’s so sad (the photo) but it does speak a 1000 words doesn’t it?

   Last blog post of lala..An Evening Stroll

2. Unguided, on August 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am said:

   @lala: Yes, it does. I really wonder if the child on the right is still alive, must be in his sixties now.

   @anon mail sender: In today’s internet, knowing how to search is necessary. This is from wikipedia:

   Nazım’s poem Kız Çocuğu (The Little Girl) conveys a plea for peace from a seven-year-old girl, ten years after she has perished in the atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima. It has achieved popularity as an anti-war message and has been performed as a song by a number of singers and musicians worldwide.

   Zülfü Livaneli (on Nazım Türküsü) has performed a version of the original Turkish poem. A loose English translation of Kız Çocuğu known as I Come And Stand At Every Door has been performed by The Byrds (on the album Fifth Dimension), Pete Seeger (on the album Headlines & Footnotes), This Mortal Coil (on the album Blood), and The Fall on their 1997 album Levitate, albeit omitting the last verse and wrongly attributing writing credits to anon/J Nagle. Fazil Say included the poem in his “Nazım” oratorio. “In 2005, famed Shima-Uta singer Chitose Hajime collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto by translating Kız Çocuğu into Japanese (retitled ‘Shinda Onna no Ko’ [死んだ女の子]). It was performed live at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on the eve of the 60th Anniversary (August the 5th, 2005). The song later appeared as a bonus track on Chitose’s Hanadairo album in 2006.

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