I remember when I wake up early in
the morning of 1985; I was
at most nine years old. My mother cooked breakfast for the whole
family
every morning. After she finished cooking we sit around a small table
and ate together. After finished eating my brother, sister and their
two
friends designed to go play in the garden near our hut. I wanted
to go
badly with them, but my brother won't let me go because I was little.
They quietly stepped out of the house without letting
me know where they
were going. However, I observed when my brother walked out of the
hut
he told my sister and their friends to be shushed! I slowly try
to
follow them to the garden, when my brother saw me and he turned
back to
scream at me, he said, "You can not go with us you have to
stay home
with mother and the younger brother." I cried, I walked back
the house
and I stay with my mom and my younger brothers. I still want to
go with
them, but I did not no which direction they went to.
After they
left about 30 minutes I already forget about them and try to
play with my brothers around the hut. As we played around not
worrying
about anything all sudden, I hard the bomb exploded BOOM!
The villagers got paranoid because the bomb blew up in the direction
of
my brother, sister, and their friends went to. My parents also
concerned
about my brother and sister and decided to join the village on
the
search.
The whole village separated and looked around for
my sister, brother, and their friends near the stream. Finally, they
found them near
the
river and three of them were laying on the grasses they badly
injured tragically one of them dead. My brother and sister got hit
and
lost
their conscious, and one of their friend still alive, but in
serious condition.
I learned that both of their friends were our cousin, they related
to my
father side of the family.
I was the one saw when the villager held my brother
and sister into
the house and laid them down. They lose a lot of blood and
there is no
hope because we do not have doctor in the village to take care
of them.
Many people came over and everybody cries so heard. Everybody
thought that they are not going to make it because the blood is
not stopped
bleeding. After a long thought of what to do my parents designed to take
my brother and sister to the hospital that is far a way from village.
In
the village there is nobody has the car to take them to the hospital
and
my parents have to carry my brother and sister and walked from my
village to the next. For abut an hour to reach the bus to take them
to
the hospital. It takes 4 hours for my brother and sister to get to
the
hospital. They stay there for almost one month after they recover
my
parents pick them and brought them home.
When they got home they looked very skinny and pale, but healthy
and pappy to be alive. The bad thing is they are got scar my brother
had
a big scar on his shoulder and my sister had all over her face and
the
fingers. But they very lucky they don't lose anything on there face
or
there finger everything they has it normal.
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