Kang,+JustinKWP

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My grandfather was in my age by the time of the Korean War, and he was one of the citizens that had to evacuate toward South, though he only traveled for about 6 hours (3hrs going south + 3hrs coming back), which is much less than the days that Seoul citizens spent without a proper shelter. An interview with my Grandfather, who had witnessed battles and had a family member that went to war, gave me a clearer image of how the war would have looked like.

Comparing my grandfather and my grandmothers’ views gave me two clear and different points of view, and it is always important to listen to two or more sides when it comes to personal opinions. I am not saying that they had different opinions, but the life they had lived through war and their tragic moments were all very different. However, they had many things in common: loss of family members, evacuation as a crowd for survival, no chance to study, etc. Even though they lived in distant regions of Korea, they both had very similar kinds of experiences during the war. This means that war has only given citizens tragedy and as my Grandfather emphasized, war must not happen again in any nation. War is not supposed to happen if the leaders of the nations think of the citizens' perspective for once. When war happens, that is because the leader did not think of the tragedy he or she has put their citizens into.