I guess he missed the bits about living through war-time in a town filled with corpses, wounded soldiers, refugees, where children were displaced from schools turned hospitals and studied outdoors. He missed the bit about the earlier years schooled in Japanese, with native Korean banned, and ha...
I got to the house. A mother filled with fear handed me her baby his face already blue. Was I too late? Dear me! I did what I had been taught to do in such a serious condition. A small thing flew out of the baby's mouth onto the floor. It was a button. Thank heavens! The...
This is good you went and prayed,this what he want the rest of us to do is to respond through the spirit.If a person ask you to do something that’s jesus going through that individual.Or it might be times Jesus will send you in a direction for one thing and once you’re there y...
Mr Lynch: What reply did you get to that? Elizabeth MacCurtain: No reply. They walked upstairs. Mr Lynch: Who walked upstairs? Elizabeth MacCurtain: One man gave the order, ‘Get in’, and about six soldiers went into the house with fixed bayonets and fou...
The night before I left for China, my mother called me into her room. I entered not knowing what to expect. I sat down at the end of her very neatly-made bed, opposite the bedroom table on which she kept a Ming-style vase illustrated in great detail. She told me that my great-gra...
Make me a child again just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;— ...
A.whisperB.cryC.shoutD.laugh 4. A.acceptB.killC.supportD.save 5. A.soldierB.motherC.womanD.father 6. A.ThoughB.ButC.OrD.However 7. A.diedB.talkedC.heardD.dreamed 8. A.WhenB.WhileC.UntilD.Since 9. A.workedB.dressedC.actedD.lived ...
“You think you understand what we are.” She leans in to show her teeth, to make them ready for counting and for use. “Like the spearman pleading for his god, and the soldiers who named meavatar. You think you know me better than they do. You think that now, at the end, you ...
And the Lyachakiv Cemetery, where Kotenko’s body was buried, has become the final resting ground for those soldiers whose families are unable to take them home or cannot be located. It is often local soldiers carrying out the ceremonial duties. The soldiers of this war ar...
of raping her mother. Choking back tears, Fischer detailed her mother's story -- recounting how she had fled Indonesia as a youth with her family to escape the rape and killing of young girls by Japanese soldiers, only to fall victim decades later to a man whose job was to care for ...