Thursday, December 6, 2007

HW#33 Teens working to help their families

“Iraqi Teens Work to Help Their Families” 10/15/07
http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/

Alive in Baghdad

This episode made me so sad, these children are 14 and 15 they shouldn't be working to help support their family. they shouldn't have to, the war has made it so bad that they have to work for their families but they can't even make it to their shop, they now have to do their work at their house. The last things they said made me feel so bad, made me wonder about what they think of our country, they asked the world to stop sending terrorists to their country, are they talking about the military from America, because they don't belong there?? I thought that was what they were talking about when they said that, they think our military are terrorist, but are they not? I mean they don't want them there, and the military are killing people, so how can we not put ourselves in their shoes and think of ourselves as terrorists?

There was a 14 year old who was in sixth grade and he was going to work instead of going to school, just so they could help their families. Him and his Brother work for their family, but instead of going to the shop like they used to they now work in their homes, inside the walls that surround their yard, it looks so dirty because of all the dust from the furniture they are building. The other boy that appears in the video is a university student who can't get work.

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