Dear diary,                                                                                           June 26, 1950

            Yesterday it happened the thing we have most feared. Northern Koreans crossed the dividing lines the south. My home. I remember I was sleeping when I heard someone screaming, “There coming.” I did not know what she was talking about so I blew her off. Then I heard my father knocking on my brother’s door, “Get up! Get up! Get your gun.” I got scared and I lay back in my bed because I did not want anything to happen. Within a few minutes, my mother ran in. “Get up,” I heard her say. “Get some clothes and hurry we have to get out of here.” I felt a gross feeling in my stomach, and I knew what had happened, the North Koreans had attacked. I hurried and grabbed some clothes and threw them on. I grabbed my bag and put in my diary, a blanket, some of my dolls and more clothes. I hurried out of my bedroom and called for my mom. I did not hear anything so I called again. I heard a lantern from outside hit the window near me, and then I felt someone grab my mouth and pull me down. I screamed but they told me to “shush.” I turned around, I saw my mother holding my mouth. She was there with my brother and my father. “They are outside,” she said. We hid until daylight and we crawled to out our backdoor. We hurried to the nearest town and told people that they had attacked. Now we are here, in Seoul. My father and brother have gone off to fight, so now it is just me and mom waiting for our family to come home.

Dear Diary,                                                                                          October 4, 1952

            The Americans are going to help us fight North Korea. I met the UN army commanding general Douglas MacArthur, I had told him about what had happened and he told me he would look out for my father and brother. I later learned that he had launched an attack and landed at Inch’ on that had changed the course of the war. Within a few weeks, North Korea has already mostly been taken over. This is good news for us. Without the U.N. and U.S. North Korea would have taken us over. I have been told that this war is almost over.

Dear Diary,

            My brother came home today. We were happy to see him. Dad was gone though. My brother told us that he had lost him during one of the regrouping of the armies. He told us how much he prayed dad was still alive somewhere. We all cried both tears of sadness and happiness. We sat in silence for along time tonight.

Dear Diary,

            HE IS ALIVE! He wrote us a letter, we received it a few days ago, and out of nowhere today he walked into the house. Well I better go and finish talking to him. Good-bye