Remembering the Fallen Australian Troops

The 25th of April and the 11th of November are not just the main days to remember fallen troops from around the world and Australia but everyday there have been many major battles for the Australian army. From the start of being sent into war to the end of a war or even major events that have happened throughout. Like the 25 April 1915 for the landing at Gallipoli to the saving of Villers-Bretonneux three years later on the same day from the German army.

The 25th April and the 11th November are two dates that everyone learns about in school in Australia but history lessons in schools for the Australian conflicts are done around ANZAC day, there is more done for the  25 April known as ANZAC Day than the 11 November known as Remembrance day. ANZAC day in Australia is a public holiday for the country, whereas Remembrance day is only observed from wherever you are at 11 o’clock in the morning on the 11th of November and Remembrance day is also observed around the world. As for ANZAC day it is observed just in Australia, Gallipoli and Villers-Bretonneux. 

There are many different dates to remember fallen troops that have fought in many different battles starting with before the first world war even happened. For Australia that was the Boer War in South Africa which started two years before Australian federation in 1901 and the war finished in 1902. The Australian involvement was spaced throughout the war with soldiers even arriving for battle once it finished but it is hard to narrow down any dates for this war as there is not much is known for the battles that happened during the war.

There are more dates to the First World War than just the 25th of April and the 11th of November. Australians have done a lot more since they left Gallipoli as they were moved to help out at the Western front from the 13th of March 1916 and this area was the bloodiest of the battles, as it was bagged down in the trenches and mud. The Western front campaign for the ANZACs started at Fromelles on the 19h of July 1916 where it was a bloody initiation into the warfare of the western front. The battle at The Sommes on the 23rd held the same toll but with fresh troops into combat and trench warfare as the losses here were comparable to that of the eight months at Gallipoli.

Between April 11th to August 16th 1917 Australians fought in three different battles that didn’t make much difference to the war but were still major battles for the Australians. Starting at Bullecourt where there were huge losses and a sense of distrust was built between the Australians and the British commanders at the time but at the battle of Messines Ridge and then at Ypres the trust was rebuilt. Messines Ridge was part of Australia’s first major large-scale action for the troops as Messines ridge overlooked the battlefield west of Ypres, which was why it needed to be captured. On the 3rd of June Australian troops detonated 19 mines under German trenches; these detonations can still be seen today in the ridge. From Messines Ridge, Australian troops moved to help the British army at Ypres but with bad weather and little ground being gained by November 1917 the battle for Ypres ended. 

From March 1918 reinforcements from the Eastern front came, just as Germany launched a great offensive at Villers-bretonneux. On the 4th of April Australian troops helped defend Villers-bretonneux and moved German troops back 2kms from the town to older trenches. British troops lost the town at dawn on April 24th to Germany but at 10pm that night, the ANZACs led a counter attack that surrounded the town. Just after dawn on April 25th, they closed the gap to the east of the town to trap the German troops in the town. With little gain by either side, the allied forces combined their artillery power and by November 11th at 11am Germany surrendered for the First World War to end.

Australia’s World War 2 campaign started when Britain and France declared war on Germany on the September 3rd 1939 after they invaded Poland to began the Holocaust. Australia’s first major battle was on October 28th 1940 a year into the war at Ballos Pass, known as the “Fall of Greece.” The battle started with Italian Forces coming in from Albania but the Greek Army was able to defeat them and push the Italian Forces back into Albania and farther away from the border. Australia’s involvement started as Germany moved through Bulgaria to help with the invasion of Russia. On April 6th Germany began their invasion with that of the main strength of the Greek army on the Albanian front keeping the Italian Army at bay, so an understrength division was quickly overrun by the German army at the Bulgarian border with the battle moving on to central Greece. Australian soldiers tried to resist the advance of the Germans but by April 22nd 1941 the order to evacuate was given. On April 24th Australian and New Zealand soldiers were charged with holding the Brollos Pass for as long as possible so other allied troops could leave.

After the “Fall of Greece” Australian troops moved to Tobruk on January 21st 1941 where the harbor port was deep and naturally protected so it could never be rendered useless as a result of military bombardment but while the port was in Italian control it was heavily fortified. Tobruk like Gallipoli held the same importance as they both led to areas with greater control and with great supply routes, both also held natural challenges that both sides needed to navigate. Australian soldiers that served at Tobruk were called “The Rats Of Tobruk” as a British broadcaster who was notorious for promoting Nazi propaganda at the time, refered to the soldiers holding Tobruk as poor desert rats of Tobruk. The Australian soldiers who served at Tobruk loved the name and wore it as a badge of honor. 

In July 1941 the war moved from just being in Europe to the Pacific Ocean as France and Netherlands fell. Japan moved its focus away from China, south towards the colonies held by these countries, along with the British held Malaya as they held raw materials that would make Japan virtually a self-sufficient economy and dominant power of the time. On December 7th 1941 the Pacific war began with Japan bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, bring America into the second world war and moving their navel bases south to safety of the Philippines and Australia. The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, the Japanese moved to invading Malaya just after midnight on the 8th of December 1941. With Malaya falling to the Japanese, the large defense barrier of land and no more than a kilometer of water would have very little hope in successfully defending Singapore from a Japanese attack that would follow then after. With the fall of Rabaul on January 23rd 1942 it marked a traumatic period in Australian history of the second world war. Following the fall of Rabaul on the 15 of February Singapore fell and five days later Timor fell, also with Java falling on the 15th of March.

The battle of Port Moresby brought the Second World War and the war in the Pacific to Australia’s doorstep with the Japanese moving to take control of Port Moresby, which would also cut the communications line between Australia and the United States. Port Moresby had been mainly fought by the air but the first of many attacks came on February 3rd with the only defense being on army anti-aircraft barriers and machine guns. The battle of Port Moresby also began the battle of the Coral Sea and the attacks on australian soil was seen coming but the first of many bombings diid not start until February 19th 1942 on Darwin. Darwin was not the only place that was bombed during the war but Broome, Townsville, Kathrine and Port Hedland was also bombed. 

Darwin having been bombed two weeks before Broome suffered the secod worst air raid for Australia on 3rd  of March were Japanese forces focused their attacks on the moored flying boats and the aircraft on the towns airstrips. The death toll for this attack was in the hundreds, most being dutch refugees from Java escaping the Japanese invasion. Broome would be hit three more times along with Darwin until November 1943. While Northern Australia was being bombed, Sydney was being attacked by the Japanese midget submarines on the 1st of June 1942 and a week later two larger submarines returned to bomb both Sydney and New Castle. 

The battle of the Coral Sea moved the battle for Port Moresby to land and by July 21st the battle of the Kokoda Track began. The ANZACs who fought at Kokoda needed to battle the natural obstacles of the mountain range that connected the town of Kokoda to a point called Owens’ Corner that is just north east of Port Moresby. The ANZACs also had to battle jungle warfare and the difficulty of the long track for the supply chain before retreating back to Imita ridge on September 17th which was the last obstacle before the main road into Port Moresby. The supply chain now being closer to the front, the ANZACs were now able to push the Japanese back and away from Port Moresby by the new year of 1943. 

The movement of Japanese troops away from Port Moresby changed the tide of the Pacific war for World War Two away from the Australian mainland, while back in Europe the Australian air force pilots were fighting in aircraft both protecting Britain’s mainland of German bombing’s while helping with the bombing of Berlin which began the end of the war in Europe. The bombing of Berlin was fought between November 1943 and March 1944 with many being Australian pilots. This battle was one of the largest, most sustained offensive on Germany’s capital city. June 6th 1944 was the being of the end for Germany as by May 1945 they surrendered which ended the second world war in Europe.

The Pacific War moved away from Port Moresby and to the south west with the battle of Borneo. The Battle of Borneo happened in three parts with the last campaign being split between land, air and sea that would disrupt Japan’s oil supply coming off of Borneo. This pushed Japan further back until the end of the war on September 2nd 1945, which finished the Second World War.

There are many more dates that Australian troops have served in both for war and peace keeping missions to remember those who have passed. Most notable be the war on terror and peace keeping missions in East Timor.

The Silent Suffer during Covid

Who are these people you ask?

The silent suffers are the people who live with everyday illnesses, that have similar symptoms to Covid.

They suffer not from having had Covid but from an illness that has been around for years and there is no way around it but to managing it. I am one of these people. I suffer with asthma manly in winter but is back under control by summer.

The past three years have been different as you needed to find different ways to manage it. This can be fine but there is still a need to cough to help with breathing. The stares that are being given when the coughing starts ends up being mentally draining more than needing to cough to help with breathing, wearing a mask is of little help as well because it can set of a coughing fit as well. Not wearing a mask is almost like needing to cough, instead of just the stares there are also people talking under their breath who do wear a mask about how it is against regulations because there is someone not wearing a mask. Even though they can see that this person is probably having trouble breathing because of what they have done for the day and that is the reason as to why they are not wearing a mask but still obeying the regulations that are in place.

The mental toll from all of this can be high for the silent suffers as they do not complain they just hide it and go about their day till they get home. There are questions that go through your head when this happens for most of these people. One being “Why do I have to live with this illness at this time?” Another being “Can we be considerate of the people around us as we don’t know what they are living with so it may not be healthy for them to wear a mask?”

Even when needing to cough there are questions that can go through your head of “Can’t you see that I am healthy, it may not even be Covid?” Even just telling people after you have coughed, they have given you a stare that “No I do not have Covid it is just my asthma being annoying” is hard. Even all of this can take a mental toll, as for three years people with an illness that is not Covid have had to live with but is something that have been living with for most of their life or were living with it just before Covid had started in 2020.

your cat brings home a body parts

“Dad the cat is bringing home body parts again but this time the are human body parts,”

“Thanks Sara. Where is the cat putting the body parts this time?”
“Here there everywhere. I found an arm in the laundry, a leg in the bath and a head in my bed. Not to mention the foot in the litter tray this morning.”

“Well this is intriguing. Back to how do we stop the cat from doing this?”

“Well Dad I don’t know but I do think that our cat has found a murder,”

“Now don’t speculate again Sara this is not a game we’re not detectives,”

There’s a knock at the door and we look at each other to figure out what to do. I head to the front door to open it and find to police officers standing there, as I open the wire door for the officers just as my cat comes back with a hand in its mouth.

“Please come in officers and have a seat, so we can talk about why my cat come into the house with a hand in its mouth,”

“Miss that is why we are here. There had been a murder three days ago, where the murderer chopped up the body but we can not find the most of the body parts,”

“What parts of the body have you not found officers,”

“Sir, we can not discuss that but can we ask why your cat walked into your house with a human hand in its mouth. sir,”

“Well that is kind of why I was asking about what body parts that you had not found. As my cat brings home animal body parts normally but recently it has brought home human body parts. I can let my daughter tell you what we know. Which body parts we have found and where we found the cat had placed them,”

“Oh sorry I was looking at where our cat had put the hand that it had in its mouth when you got here, which is in the kitchen sink by the way. OK so apart from the hand being in the sink, the cat has put an arm in the laundry, a leg in the bath and a head in my bed. Oh I almost forgot the foot in the litter tray which was this morning,”

Round 23 of the 2017 season Hawthorn Press Conference:

Belinda Swart

 

During Hawthorn’s round 23 press conference, Alastair Clarkson acknowledged four decorated players who had finished their careers in the game. Gibson didn’t play due to injury which saw him sidelined. It was a pity that there had been a winner.

Clarkson summed up Hawthorn’s season as having a disappointing start, but ending better in the second half of the season, despite some senior players being out with injuries. Clarkson added the season was a good learning experience for the team’s youngsters, as they needed to stand up and play against high profile players and inject themselves into the match. Clarkson mentioned, he was disappointed they weren’t in the finals but hoped they would be playing in them again next season.

When asked “if he needed to coach more and have more input into the team this year?” Clarkson responded by saying “he didn’t know if it was personal or the methods used by the club at the beginning of the season because of the losses. It’s testing with the coach’s, as they are a hardworking team. There is great support from the board with the way we started the year being 0-4 and giving suggestions on ways to get back on track to possibly playing finals.”

When asked about Jarryd Roughead’s recovery. Clarkson responded by saying that “his recovery, was remarkable but it had been tough not knowing if he was going to be playing this year or not. Roughead is not playing at the same level he was playing at before the illness, but there are glimpses of his abilities from before.”

Clarkson was asked “how will it be without having Luke Hodge in the team next year?” Clarkson answered with “it’s taking time” as Hodge is a decorated player that the team is reliant on. Just as when Franklin moved to Sydney or when Chris Judd moved to Carlton from West Coast.

When asked if he would push Ryan Burton’s case on becoming NAB rising star. He responded with “I wouldn’t because it needs to be off Burton’s own play of the game to get the achievement. Not someone else helping him win this achievement.”

Clarkson concluded his press conference by stating, there are disadvantages to finishing in the top four when there is a week break before the finals. This week break opens up the competition as any top eight team could win the premiership.

“Did you see that?” he shouted.

“Did I see what Paul?”

“The angle Samuel. The angle. He said ‘the lord will rise again and not lose faith in our god.'”

Hope

Once upon a time there was a young girl who doesn’t know that she has powers or there is another world needing her help. One day she comes home from school to find her mum sitting by the front door waiting for her, so she could tell the young girl a secret.

“Hey mum, what’s up?” asks the young girl.

“Hi Hope, I have just received a letter from your grandmother saying that she needs your help but she is not living on this world,” says the young girls mother.

“Mum, I don’t think I can help out on a different world when I don’t know anything about it. I don’t think I can be the person or have the ability that they need,” says Hope.

“Hope, stop being so down on yourself and thinking that you can’t when you can. All you need is to believe in yourself and you will be able to do this Hope,” says her mum.

“Ok mum, I will have faith and hope in myself. So I can do what needs to be done,” says Hope.

After Hope’s mum finished talking to her about the other world her grandmother is on and she also grow up on but just before her 16^th birthday they had to leave and come here because someone wanted her dead, which was the reason why Hope didn’t know she has powers until she needed to know. Hope’s mother shows her the powers she has and how to use them.

“Hope, even though you have all these powers, just know your greatest power is your faith and hope you give to people. Ok?” says her mum.

“Ok mum, let’s go and help gran and stop all the evil doing and give everyone their faith and hope back, so they can stop the evil is around as well,” says Hope.

So Hope’s mum went to grab a necklace from her room to give to Hope as a portal between the two worlds. Her mum was keeping hold of the necklace until it was time to hand the necklace over and for her to see the other world.

“Here you are Hope, this necklace is for you. The necklace is how you will go between both worlds and help everyone that needs you. Hope you also need to believe that you are able to help, the faith and hope you have will be able to stop all evil that comes and tries to rob, kill and destroy but you need to show that there is life and life to the full as well,” says Hope’s mum.

“Ok mum. I will believe that I have the faith and hope they need to stop the evil that comes their way or the evil that comes towards me. So how do I get to Granma with this necklace and help everyone out?” asks Hope.

“Hope all you need to do is think of being with Gran and the necklace will take you to either to where she is or to where you are needed the most but I think the necklace will take to your Grandmother first,” says Hope’s mum.

Once Hope and her mother finished talking. Hope put the necklace on her mother given her. Once Hope had the necklace on, she closed her eyes and started to believe that she was next to her grandmother seeing her smiling but when Hope opened her eyes she found, she was no longer at home but in a forest she has never seen before. There was no one around she could ask for help and there where no signs to point her in the direction she needed to go in. Hope thought it was best that she continued to look around and try to find her either Granma or someone to help her to by either directing her to her grandmother or take her to her grandmother. While walking she came across a tall young man who knows his way around the forest.

“Well. Hello there beautiful. Where are you from, why are you out here and not in town with everyone else? That is where everyone is and where all new people start off,” says the young man.

“Well mister, know it all. If you must know I am new around here and it is my first day here because I am not from this world. I am here to meet my grandmother who I haven’t seen for ages and I believed to be right next to her again but I do not see my grandmother around, all I see is you and this forest. So may you please help me get to my grandmother because I have no idea where I am, where she is and what help she needs?” says Hope.

“Well then. I will help you get to your gran and show you around as we go, beautiful,” says the young man.

“Well thank you for your help in advance, for both helping me find my gran and also showing me around as we go. Now because I really don’t like talking to strangers and when I meet gran, I would like to introduce you by your actual name, not this young man was kind enough to help me out while I was stuck in the forest. So may I please know your name? Oh and by the way my name is Hope,” says Hope.

“So, my name is Luke. You have a beautiful name Hope, it’s just a shame you don’t have hope in yourself to do what you have been called to do or be,” says the young man.

“You can’t say, I don’t have hope in myself to do what I have been called to do or be because you don’t know me, what I think about myself and if I believe in myself or not. THANK YOU EVERY MUCH!” says Hope.

Once Hope finished there was a big bust of energy that went off, which had been building up over the time of Hope’s rant.

“Whoa, beautiful. You have a lot of power there for someone so small and weak but you also have an explosive temper as well. So I really don’t want to be on the wrong side of you because once you learn how to use and control your power you will be deadly towards me,” says Luke.

“Well, thanks but I don’t think I need my powers to be deadly. So now can we please get going, so I can be with my grandmother please and stop calling me beautiful,” says Hope.

“Ok. Lets go before you do hurt me with out your powers, gorgeous,” says Luke.

Once Luke had finished, he started to show her around. As they were walking through the forest they started to meet some more people for Hope to get to now.

“Hi Luke, how are you and who is this lovely lady with long brown wavy hair walking with you?” says the first person they meet.

“Hi James, I’m good today. This lovely lady in a flower dress and wearing runners is Hope,” says Luke.

“Well, hello Hope. As Luke has just said my name is James. You seem like a girl who has faith and goes to church so don’t believe anything he says ok? Luke also you need to play nice with her,” says James.

“I do play nice James,” says Luke.

“Hello James. Thank you for your comments. I do know that I don’t need to believe anything he says and to not believe what I think about myself. Yes, I also have faith and go to church,” says Hope.

“Thank you James, for this short chat but we do need to get moving so bye,” says Luke.

“Ok, bye Luke and the beautiful Hope. I do hope and have faith that I will see you someday again. So bye,” says James.

“Bye James, I hope to see you again too,” says Hope.

Once they left James, they continued on walking. As they were walking, they came across a fast flowing river in the valley of two mountains. The only way across the river was over a bridge, which had been washed away because of the river moving to fast. The only way to get across the river now was to wade through it.

“Well then beautiful, I believe the only way to get past this river is to go through it. So ladies first,” says Luke.

“Luke! Are you crazy this is a rapid river, so if we go…” Hope says, as she didn’t get to finish what she was going to say before Luke pushed her into the river.

Once Hope was able to get over to the river bank climbed up and moved away, so she could look herself over for any serious injuries she may have gotten from the river. When she finished, she looked up and found a red curly haired girl standing in front of her looking at her wondering what had just happened.

“Hello there, my name is Alya. You’re not from around here are you? Oh my you’re drenched, tell me you didn’t try to go through the river, never mind come with me so I can help you dry off and also give you a change of clothes. You can tell me what happened even though I have an idea. That good for nothing devil but I don’t have the faith and hope in god than I used to because of all the bad things I have done,” says the girl.

“Hello. No I am not from around here and my name is Hope. Yes I am drenched but it was not fault because I was with this young man who was helping me get to my grandmother but we got to this river and the bridge was out. I told him that it was crazy but I never finished it because I was pushed into the river. I will be grateful for some dry clothes please. God has forgiven you for any sin that you have made,” says Hope.

“Thank you, now I do believe that I will be able to say no to the devil. Come on let’s get you dried off and changed Hope. While you are changing, you can tell me about your gran and this young man,” says Alya.

While Hope began to dry her herself off she told Alya about her gran needing help and she was needed to come here but she didn’t arrive near her gran but arrived in the forest. While she was looking around, she meet this boy that was going to help her find her gran but on the way they meet another boy that spoke to them. Once they left him, they continued walking until they got to the river. The bridge was washed out, the only way was to go around to find another bridge or to wade through but the river is flowing to quickly. The only option was to find another bridge but that never happened because the young man pushed Hope into the river.

“Hope, was the young man walking with you named Luke?” asks Alya.

“Yes, it was and the boy that we meet was named James. James told Luke that he needed to play nice with me, which he didn’t” says Hope.

“Well, Luke doesn’t really play nice with anyone because he is the devil Lucifer and with you being here trying to help out and giving everyone back their faith and hope, he is not liking it. So he is trying to stop you, by trying to kill you by pushing you into the river but by the looks of that he didn’t succeed in that,” says Alya.

“Yeah that’s right. Do you think he will try again, when he figures out that I am not dead from the river? Can you also lend me some clothes as well because I don’t think mine will be dry anytime soon?” asks Hope.

“Yeah, let me go and grab some and with Luke I don’t really know but maybe,” answers Alya.

Just as Alya started to go and grab some dry clothes for Hope, there was a knock at the door. Alya went and answered the door to find James standing there.

“Hi James, what do you want?” asks Alya.

“All I want to know Alya, is if Hope is OK? As that I had seen Luke push her into the river,” answers James.

“Come on in James. Yes she is ok. She is just drenched and I am going to grab her some dry clothes,” says Alya.

After Alya takes James to Hope, she leaves to go and grab some dry clothes for her. When Alya comes back she was caring dresses that were all floral designs. Hope picks one of the dresses and goes to change. When Hope came back she was wearing a white dress with red roses over it.

“UM! Hope, you look amazing in that dress,” says James with his mouth wide open.

“James! Close your mouth and stop steering because it is not nice to steer. Hope you look beautiful. Here we will help you find your gran and save you from the devils hands if he comes near you. Won’t we James?” asks Alya.

“Yes! We will help you,” says James.

“Thank you and I do believe that you can stop the devil, all you need is have faith and hope in god that he will protect you from him,” says Hope.

“Ok then lets go into town. Just let me go and get the map we need to go into town,” says Alya.

Once Alya got back with the map they headed off towards town. On their way there, Luke was waiting for them. Not to far up the mountain they were climbing.

“What are you doing here Luke? You have caused enough trouble for both James and me. You are also not causing any more trouble for Hope or even trying to kill her any more because we won’t stand for it!” says Alya.

“Yeah Luke, what she said because Hope is the best,” says James.

“You are both as weak as each other. Neither of you have the hope and faith to stop me. To give both of you the heads ups neither does she because she does not believe in herself with any thing that she needs to do. So this time I will win!” says Luke.

“Luke, dark won’t win as long as there are people who have faith and hope. Light will always win because there is always people who will believe and stop you!” says Hope.

“Well, we will see about that now won’t we beautiful,” says Luke.

Once Luke finished he walked over to Hope and flung her over his shoulder walking off leaving Alya and James staring after him. When they were far enough away and at the edge of the cliff, Luke dropped Hope on the ground. Hope hit the ground hard, she waited a few minutes before she got up. When she was standing she looked at Luke than at the edge of the cliff.

“Luke! Don’t do it because if you do then you are just like the devil and I don’t won’t to believe that,” says Hope.

“My darling Hope. I am the devil. You and your god will never have your way on this world or any world that you are on, then again you will never be on any other world because you will be dead,” says Luke.

As Luke finished Alya and James turned up. Luke looked between Alya, Hope, James and the edge of the cliff.

“Luke! Your evil ways are over. We will not allow you to continue your evil ways because now we have the hope in god that he will save us from the devil. God has forgiven us for our sins. Devil you need to leave here now,” says Alya.

“Luke, your way with us is over. You will never have control over us ever again. You will never try to rob, kill or destroy us ever again because of our happiness. So leave here now and never come back because you are the devil and you don’t belong here,” says James.

Once James finished Luke stepped closer to Hope but she know what he was planning on doing. Luke went to push Hope off the cliff but before he could Hope disappeared from in front of him, so instead of Hope falling of the cliff Luke did.

“Well. He won’t be after you anymore or trying to kill me. Now lets go find my grandmother,” says Hope.

“Hope! You can teleport yourself between places. Hang on you never told us that you even had powers because if you did we would have helped you get to your grandmother quicker. We would have know what kind of powers you had?” says Alya.

“Alya, I have only just come to know that I even had powers. All of what I have done right now is because it is natural for me to save other people before I save myself and to help others when they are in need. I don’t care if I get hurt Alya, all I care about is if the people around me that I am helping are safe,” says Hope.

Before Alya or James could say anything there was a bright light and there stood Hope’s grandmother.

“Gran. Hi, how are you? Why am I here and why didn’t I start off with you to begin with?” asks Hope.

“Hi, my darling Hope, I’m good. You are here to get rid of the devil and give people their hope and faith back. By the looks you have already started with that. As for you not coming to me at the start was because I didn’t need you and you new what you needed to do. The only thing you didn’t was your powers and how to use them but apart from that you have done great Hope,” says her Gran.

“Thank you gran but I can’t take all of the credit some of it needs to go to Alya and James. When I was in need they were there to help because of their faith and hope we all stopped Luke together,” says Hope.

“Hope, you are an angel sent by god. Caria your granddaughter is the savior that we needed for a long time, even if we didn’t think we needed to be saved,” says James.

“James, Alya, I am just thankful you were here to help. Now let’s go back to town,” says Caria.

Caria teleported them back to town where they got around of applause from everyone because they had gotten ride of the devil with only their faith and hope.

“Look my darling Hope, you believed in yourself enough to give everyone a life where hope and faith can live and where they can stand up and face their fears they have. You have shown everyone that you can smile in the face of the devil and their fears but still stand strong in the darkest of times that they are in,” says Caria.

“Thank you gran. I may not have believed in myself from the very beginning but I did stand up and smile in the face of my fears and the devil,” says Hope.

Once they got back to Caria’s house, they all sat down and drunk a cup of tea. Hope laid down on the couch and fell asleep. Neither Alya, James and Caria moved her or woke her up. Hope deserved the rest because of what she had been through that day, by what she had done and even what had happened to her by the devil trying to stop her.

war on terror

Will the war on terror final end up being world war and the end to life on earth or is it just going to end and be a distant memory for those who lived through the war around the world?

The war on terror has been around for as long as I can remember. The war on terror just keeps on changing and moving but it is all the same as that it started in one spot that is 9/11, the world trade center attack in 2001 in America. The war on terror started in America with that attack and then America moved it the Afghanistan so that they could stop the Taliban, al-Qaeda and also to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. Once al-Qaeda, Taliban and Osama Bin Laden were gone another threat arose in ISIS and who wouldn’t say that there couldn’t be another threat after them?

 

The war on terror is going on in the Middle East. The main counties that the war on terror focuses on are Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria because of their links to terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS, with these terrorist groups being mainly made up of Muslims. Now everyone is scared of them all because they think their terrorist but not all Muslims are terrorist, they are sweet, kind and friendly.

15 years of “war on terror” isn’t making us safer. It’s creating more terrorists. #Syria #GetWoke #PressSecretaryPoetry #yemen #MOAB pic.twitter.com/7RkRa38YIl

— Travis Ruger (@TravisRuger) April 14, 2017

The Taliban and al-Qaeda did pose a threat after 9/11 but that threat ended after ten years and a new one had risen in ISIS. Everyone says that the war on terror is real and a major threat to our lives because they can strike at anytime and anywhere so we should always be on the look out but this is not the only threat out there. Now government’s around the world are saying that this is a major threat scaring everyone but when a major situation has happened where people have been injured or killed it is believed that ISIS has done it when it probably was not from them. This is true to say for Australia as that when anything big happens or there is a major event we are told to be careful and be on the look out for anything out of the ordinary.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/white-house-includes-lindt-cafe-siege-and-curtis-cheng-killing-in-list-of-underreported-terrorism-attacks-20170207-gu7m9x.html

In 2014 everyone believed that the war on terror was still going on but it will never come to Australian soil and all major attacks that have happen might have been the work of ISIS but on December 15^th in Sydney there was a siege at the Lindt café at Martin Place from a person who people are calling a home grown terrorist. In Melbourne earlier this year there was a tragic event at Bourke Street mall which everyone begin believing that it was terror related when it wasn’t, it was just a man that had anger issues and decided to do reckless driving injuring and killing pedestrians. Why is it now that whenever there is a tragic accident or major situation somewhere in the world everyone says that it is a terrorist attack first when it is more then likely isn’t?

Experts at the coronial inquest into the attack have been divided on whether Monis’ actions was an act of terrorism or the result of Monis’s mental illness and violent past. Photo: Channel Seven

Yes the war on terror is happening in the world but not every big bad thing that happens in the world is terror related it is just someone in the world doing something terrible to get noticed by the media or it is a country showing its might with what weapons that they have.

Yes I agree that ISIS is a terror group and that they have following around the world in many countries that have already had attacks from home grown terrorists that can stand up and fight for ISIS in there own country like Germany, France and London.

Yes I even believe that terrorism is still a threat but it is not the only threat that is out there in our world, a quote from the New York Times opinion piece by David Rieff in 2016 is “What can be done in response? To answer that question, it is first necessary to face what can’t. Not all these attacks can be stopped.” This is even true as that not all attacks can even be stopped with what we put in place. There are threats from other countries and there are even natural disasters that can even cause damage to our lives or even kill us. I also believe that one day this war will end and also that one-day everyone will see that not all Muslims are the same there are all different.

What if the war on terror never ends will it end up being world war or will it become like another cold war or will it just continue being seen as a conflict in the middle east that does not end it just keeps on changing with the time until there is nothing left on earth?

To me I think that it will just keep on going and change with the time that we are living in.

By Belinda Swart

Twitter trending post: #百条委員会

#百条委員会 translated to # 100 committee.

100 committee is a committee that takes about important information and at this time it was a about the killing of whales that Japan are killing

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I’m happily back safe and sound with my family after an experience that you could possibly say was horrifying. This horrifying experience all started with a knock at the door on one gloomy afternoon, when I was home alone. I went to the door after turning everything off to answer it hoping that it was my best friend. I realised after I opened the door it was not my best friend but a tall, dark haired man, who seemed to be following me around everywhere and he was now standing at my front door which frightened me. I closed the door on him but he put his foot in the way of the door being closed. He then came in and towards me to give me something that would put me to sleep.

I woke up drowsy from the drug that I had been given. I found that I was no longer at home but on a boat that was rocking which made me feel seasick. I looked around me at the place he put me and didn’t find much except that I had been placed close to the stairs. I got up from this place and headed up the stairs, as I got close to the top of the stairs I could feel the sea breeze across my face. I was now on the top deck of the boat when I realised it was not a boat but a yacht that was big and had three different levels to it, while I was looking around I found my capture along with some of friends, who were all tall and built which scared me. I turned away from them to see what else was around but did not find much, till I heard a loud noise and the moving of feet. I felt a few drops of water on my face, I thought it was from a huge wave that had hit the yacht till I heard someone yell that we were in a storm and everyone needed to get below deck.

They didn’t realise I was up on deck till I heard someone yell that the girl was not below deck and someone else was screaming that they were taking on water. I started to look around a bit more to try and find the radio, so I could call the coast guard as I was doing this the guy who kidnapped me came back up onto the deck and found me looking around. He came over to me and grabbed my hand so I could call for help but I had no idea where the radio was. He took me up to the third deck, which is where the radio was. He turned the radio on and to where it needed to be. He gave me the mic so I could speak with the coast guard and tell them what had happened from me being kidnapped to the yacht that we are on was sinking. Once I was able to talk to the coast guard I told them what had happened.

“I had been kidnapped, placed on a yacht that was in the middle of the ocean and that the yacht was also sinking because we were in a storm,” I said.

When the coast guard got to us they took me off first and handed me over to the paramedics who were kind gentlemen, so they could check me over. When they were finished they said everything was fine but to be on the safe side I should go to the hospital for some further check-ups. I had been thinking that I wasn’t alright because I had been kidnapped, drugged and I was also not feeling well, who knows what else they did to me while I was drugged. Now we were back on dry land where the police and my family were waiting, the police took my captures away and one came over to me to say that someone will come and see me at the hospital so that they can get a statement from me, this was said with my parents not far from me. After the police officer left the paramedic that had took me from the coast guard came over to get me so they could take me to the hospital for some further check-ups.

When I got to the hospital the doctor that took over was lovely and also a lady, which made me feel better because the paramedics were male which had scared me but they were really nice. While I was with the doctor a police officer came in to see me but she said not just yet to the police officer because she had a few more tests to do. When she was done the police officer come back into ask me what had happened up to when the coast guard came and got us off the yacht. I told the police officer what had happened up till the rescue. When I had finished my doctor came back in to say that I was fine and able to go home. I am now safe and sound back at home and I thank god for bringing me back home safe.