This is an I-Heart podcast. The music you just heard of Kili'i Island in

Ninetyse.

The words translate as follows,

No longer can I stay, it's true. No longer can I live in peace and harmony. No longer can I rest on my sleeping mat, pillow, because of my island and the life I once knew there. The thought is overwhelming,

rendering me helpless and in great despair. My spirit leaves, drifting around and far away, where it becomes caught in a

current of immense power, and only then do I find tranquility. Pekini Atoll has a flag as well. It looks a lot like the US flag, but in the top

left blue rectangle, you'll only find 23 white stars. They represent the islands of Bikini Atoll.

The three black stars on the upper right of the flag represent the three islands that were vaporized

by the March 1st

15-15 megatine hydrogen bomb blast codenamed Bravo. The two black stars in the lower right-hand

corner represent where the bikinians live now, Kili Island, 425 miles to the south of Bikini

atoll, and Egypt Island on the Maduro atoll. These two stars are symbolically far south of Bikini Atoll, an Egypt island on the Maduro Atoll.

These two stars are symbolically far away from bikini stars on the flag, as the islands are far away in real life, both in distant and in terms of quality of life.

The Marshallese words running across the bottom of the flag,

Men, Ote Mijéj Eil Ben-Anij, translate to,

Everything is in the hands of God.

These represent the words spoken in 1946 by the bikini and leader, Judah,

to the U.S. Commodore Ben Wyatt,

when the American went to bikini to us the islanders

on a Sunday after they'd just been to church

to give up their islands for the good of all mankind so that the US could test nuclear weapons there.

The close resemblance of the Bikinians flag to the flag of the United States is to remind the

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