Broken Promise

 

What has the world become to? When did our promises began to mean nothing?

I went to school today hoping to have a nice meeting with Ron Edding, but I had gotten something more than what I expected. Our conversation had wondered off, into something, that I would have never thought it would be. Goosebumps climbed all over my body as we talked about Genocides and that just got me into talking about the Secret War in the Jungles of Laos.

In case if you didn't know, in the Vietnam War, America's CIA had made a promise to help the Hmongs. They both would have to help each other with the war, and after the war was over, America would take care of the Hmongs. [The Hmong soldiers were called "Hmong guerrillas"] The Hmongs thought America wanted to help them, but it was not so. America wanted to block the communists from using Laos, as a supply route, along the Ho Chi Min Trail, to South Vietnam. Was it all a lie? In 1973, the United States withdrew its support, and from that moment, the Hmong guerrillas couldn't defend against the communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers. The Hmongs were abandoned by the United States. Hmongs soldiers, along with there families, all fled to the jungles of Laos, and deep within these forest, they were cruelly murdered.

It's very sad how mass murders can happen right now, and we would not know anything about it. Kids, at the age of 8, already holding guns in there hands. Great grandfathers, at the age of 80, still pleading for the broken promise because they haven't realized that the Vietnam War had already ended. Women’s seeing their daughters being raped and slaughter in front of their eyes. How can there be such inhumanity, and no one to stop it? Every night, before bed, mothers are saying their goodbyes, to their kids, holding on to dear life, wishing to see their families tomorrow morning. If promises were meant to be broken, what's the use of it? These innocent people are being killed because of a promise unfulfilled, so how can we still eat like there's nothing wrong?

My family came to this land, the land of freedom, hoping their life would be better than before. Isn't this a land of opportunities, but I'm confused if this is even true. It might just be another broken promise.