The person I learned about was John Bangura. He had been angry for a long time along with the rest of his town. During the civil war in Sierra Leone, he witnessed a massacre of his parents, relatives, and most of the town leaving the only survivors completely traumatized. The survivors were in outrage they wanted vengeance. But instead the people worked with rebels to clear way for Peacekeeping efforts. Bangura has high hopes and expectations for the future of Sierra Leone, but he asks of others only what he asks of himself. He asks them to live with absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love.
Tim H.
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John Bangura's story is remarkable. He did some pretty amazing things for a single person to do in order to help his home country. Even though he suffered a lot, he still worked extremely hard to end the tragedies that he had experienced.
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-Noah E.