Harmony School, 1989, Page 160

Description:	THE TIME OF NEEDWHY IS FIRE HOTThings Just couldnt work out withthe two countries. My parents were dead bya bombing two years ago and my brotherwent to fight in the Korean War and wasfiled, missing in action. I am now 18 andwaiting for something, maybe the war tostop or freedom in America.Korea was turning into a nightmare.Everywhere you looked destruction andprisoners from America. In your house atnight no trickle of water or air to tap yourwindow to put you to sleep. Just the soundof machine guns, crys of men and generalsyelling, troops marching and anytransportation roaring.It was November 22, 1953. The warhad stopped, all of everyones anguish wasover. The pain had stopped, but the fear Ifelt then will stick forever. I had lost myfamily, nothing to go by but to start over.Right now Im living with myneighbors. They treat me so well, but mylife will always be filled with the wrongthing, no family.Later I yelled goodbye to myneighbors at the dock. The boat sailedaway. I was going to tiy to build a new life.On the boat all of the passengers butone person were old. Her name was JengYvon. We were always going to be friends.Make that best friends. Once we talked I feltlike I had someone to lean on.Christa AbramA long time ago fire was very cold andwhen It was hot people would build a fire tocool down.One day a man made a fire to cooldown, but it was so hot that the fire got hot,so from that day on fire was always hot.Christian Ebel-OrrOnce...I got a new pair of shoes. Andthen when we got home I put on my newshoes, and my shoes said, Hey! Step onsomeone your own size! So I put stiltsunder my shoes, and they couldntcomplain.Until I tried to get out the door. Ibumped my ankles on the top of the door.Whenever I went roller skating goodand bad things happened. The good thingswere that all the bullies who tried to knockeverybody over couldnt knock me overbecause I could just hold onto the roof, andwhen we got our skates and returned them Icould Just walk over everybody else.The bad things were that I couldntparticipate much in many of the games,because theres no way I could get down thatlow for the limbo. I couldnt do thesnowball because I couldnt reach anybody.I couldnt do the hokey-pokey. One, it wastoo hard to coordinate the skates from thathigh, and two, was that if I made one falsemove everybody would be knocked over likea set of dominoes.I remember one time when theysaid, Put your right leg in, I kicked theother person on the other side of the room.But then I went home and got on my oldshoes.Justin Buratti160
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