Tommorrow When The War Began

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Huh (Sigh)…                I’m so tired, frustrated and just annoyed. I’m sick of this stupid senseless war, I wish it never began. If only I could go back to the ways things were before. No longer would I have to sleep in this daggy, old sleeping bag. No longer would I have to live in such poor and devastating conditions. Instead, I would be tucked inside my warm, clean queen size bed, surrounded by four walls and I would feel an indescribable feeling: one of safety and love; one that you would only find at a place called ‘home’.

I’d never thought I’d be in such a challenging and perplexing situation in all my life. I’d always seen pictures of the devastating results of war on the news and in the local paper, but I never knew that one day that would be me; struggling to survive in such unfamiliar conditions, dodging bullets 24 – 7 and living life as a guerrilla, conscious of every little movement. I never knew that one day I would walk in their shoes. Though here I am today and I can smell it, touch it, hear it and even taste it. The war is now a major part of my life and there’s nothing I can do about it.

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Oh how I wish I was there right now, but of course I’m NOT! I’m stuck out here in the middle of Hell!  (Sigh)  The name speaks for itself.

Now, just as I was thinking of all the dreadful events that have occurred to me over the past few months, just as I was reassuring myself that things couldn’t possibly get any worse, they do! My close friend Corrie gets shot in the back by a barbaric, sinister solider and Kevin is forced to surrender and risk his life in order to save Corrie’s. I don’t even know ...

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