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* “You have to be both an angel and a devil in order to create peace” I am a little kid walking up the dark cobbled streets of France, chatting among close friends. Shouting, laughing, and wondering, what wonderful mixtures of food are our mothers conjuring in the kitchen. As we continue to walk up the hill, and past by the smiling couples, lively children’s, and joyous merchants. We hear a deafening key being hit over and over again from the distance. The keys to this sound linger in our ears, as its notes fall to the ground like beggars change. Then again from the distance comes a crowd full of twisted faces melded between agony and sadness, children’s that were once lively are now crying . The once joyous merchants now scatter among the chaos leaving there stands and their life’s work behind them. Being the kids that we are, we run with the fray then comes, a blinding flash followed with a rumble; and I stumble to the floor. When I came back to my senses, I was lying amongst a valley of debris, and a valley of corpses. The hill that was once dusk, was now a crimson red, and being the kid that I was I though the hill was simply crying in pain. Realizing this as hell on earth, I called for my friends but not an answer came back to reassure me. “Guy, Guy what does this story have to do with achieving your accomplishments” said my teacher irritatingly. I took my time to answer and while I was waiting I looked around the classroom, and I saw some kids laughing, and others looking at me as if I were crazy. Then I said “is war really that funny that you would laugh, is it that funny when a child dies that you laugh, is war really that fun that you would go and make a widow out of a wife”. There smiled dropped from their faces, and a decent few said “no”. Realizing what I was talking about my teacher asked me “how will one man alone achieve peace, let alone someone like you, can you tell me, enlighten me guy”. I looked at him straight in the eye, smiled and said ………………..
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