Amerikali yazar ve gazeteci John Richard Hersey'in olum yildonumu (24 Mart 1993)
"Herkes gozleri acik vaziyette sirt ustu kimildamadan yattigi icin kimin olu kimin canli oldugunu ayirt etmek kolay degildi. Feci sekilde yaralanmis yuzlerce kisinin bir arada aci cektigi bu nehir kenarindaki parka hakim olan sessizlik, batidan gelmis biri olarak Rahip Kleinsorge’nin hayati boyunca tanik oldugu en korkunc ve dehsetli olaylardan biriydi.Yaralilar sessizdi, kimse aglamiyordu, cok cok azi canlari yandigi icin ciglik atiyordu. Hic kimse sikayet etmiyordu, cocuklar bile aglamiyordu. Hatta neredeyse konusan kimse yoktu."
"It was very crowded, and to distinguish the living from the dead was not easy, for most of the people lay still, with their eyes open. To Father Kleinsorge, an Occidental, the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience. The hurt ones were quiet; no one wept, much less screamed in pain; no one complained; none of the many who died did so noisily; not even the children cried; very few people even spoke."
"Tam yuzunu pencerenin aksi istikametine cevirmisti ki, odanin ici insani kor eden bir isikla doldu. Korkudan donakalmisti. Her sey yere devrildi. Odanin tavani asagi indi. Hepsinden once, arkadaki kitapliklar one savrulup iclerindeki kitaplar dokulunce Bayan Sasaki yere yikildi, sol bacagi kivrilip korkunc bir sekilde altinda kalarak kirildi. Iste o anda, teneke fabrikasinda, atom caginin ilk saniyesinde, bir insan KITAPLARIN altinda kalarak ezildi."
"The room was filled with a blinding light. She was paralysed by fear, fixed still in her chair for a long moment. Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by BOOKS."
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