The African Pace Keeping Force By Kula Kamari

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Have you ever wished you could turn back the clock in time to relive a special time in your life? What will you do? Will become a better person or have find happiness. Whatever you do it is completely up to you. I believe everyone deserves a second chance in life. A second chance give you the opportunity to do something over. It allows you to learn from your mistakes and to do a better job the second time around or found happiness again from your hardship. Kula Kamari was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia, in West Africa. Her mother had three children, all girls and she was the oldest. Her father died when she was six. When she was eleven years old, her country had a civil war. One early foggy morning in January 1991, the sound of gun fire …show more content…
At the time she did not care. She was heavy drugged and felt no remorse. After a year and a half into becoming a rebel, the African Pace Keeping Force (APKF) call for all rebel leaders to please put down their arms to negotiate peace. They came to an agreement and made peace. Everyone was forced to turn over their arms to the APKF. After the peace agreement, Mary and some of the girls who become a child soldier was sent to the Mother Hannah B. William orphanage home. It was a church institution for girls. With the bitter of losing her mother and sibling she was getting into trouble almost every day. When the other girls made her anger, she would threaten to kill them. Mother Hannah would spend more time counseling Mary. She would tell Mary that God have a purple for her and Mary thought she was talking nonsense. A year later, Mary said she had a dream about her mother, but the only thing, the dream seen real. She said she really felt her mother sitting by her bedside. “She was right there wearing this pure white dress talking to me and I was talking back to her like mother and daughter. She said to me open your heart to God and ask him to forgive you and he will, he has a purple for

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