Personal Narrative: My Experience In Afghanistan

The motivation for me writing to you today is because I have come to a realisation after many years on what you have been through and I now feel how you must be feeling for the last 15 years. I feel like a complete ahmaq. Although I would greatly appreciate your bahkshesh I understand if you don’t. Although I have not been able to see a close acquaintance such as your relationship with Hassan getting rapped I have been petrified to see innocent children get raped. I now know how it feels to be powerless to help someone. Although I have wanted to write to you for many years I thought compelled after what I saw in Afghanistan after I returned. I feel compelled to write to you as I have recited your book that you wrote about your time in Afghanistan. Even though in the book I am shown as a prejudicial person, at heart I am not. I was so scared of aseef and the fact that I could not do his bullying that I felt I needed to flee the country to …show more content…
After minimal training by the Pakistan government, I was sent over to Afghanistan. Upon my arrival, I was shocked to see what the country had turned into! The soviets ruled major parts and there were continued fighting between warlords. About a week into my deployment I came across an orphanage. I saw a Russian people mover in the driveway, I felt that I had to have a look what they were doing at an orphanage. What I found was those pulling young children into the troop carrier. I made sure I wasn’t seen. Once the truck started to move I followed it closely in my car. What I found was horrible! These people were taking the kids from the orphanage and raping them. I felt what u must have felt when u were looking on when Assef was raping ur