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First place - Gold
Birkin,David
This is Afghanistan: a country littered with the memories of conflict. It is also a country of intense human bonds. John Lennon 's lyric is nostalgic yet without regret. It reminds me of Johnny Cash 's cover, released the year both he and his lifelong partner, June Carter, died. For Cash, all that mattered was 'my music, my wife and my God '. For Lennon, as for Wilfred Owen two generations before, it was war, the waste of life and holding onto someone you love. 'And these memories lose their meaning when I think of love as something new. '
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