VIOLENCE

when i was a kid almost 7 years old i seen a lot of things more then any one else seen when there were kids. I was 7 years old living in my country Palestine. It was 2000 and the war begun again. It wasn't the first time my country fight in war. It always been in my country and the Jews always fighting for there homelands. So it was the year 2000 and I lived in a village near the west bank and the Jews would always shoot bullet at night and go around people house to scare them. I was a kid and with my other brothers. my mom used to sleep next to us in one bedroom with all six of us and stay there until they stop shooting for protection. Every night you see in the sky bullets flying all over our houses because when they shoot at the sky in the dark outside you see like red lightings flying and brighting the sky because the bullet goes so fast that you see red things. That's why i grew up with violence and have seen different kinds of guns, weapons in the news and reality. i grew up with violence but i hope that young people these days would know better and become a better person if they see something wrong you should walk away instead of fighting. I hope that there parents will teach them right from wrong like my parents have thought me. For my protection my parents brought me here to the U.S. to have a better future for me and my brothers. Now i lived in a good neighborhood that treats me and my family with respect. Now my younger brothers will live in a better neighborhood then I used to live and they will not be exposed to that much of violence that i have went threw.


BY: GOMA MUSA.