On this day 24 yrs ago my siblings and me life change for ever. We lost our father all of us at a very young age, Cornelius born two months earlier, Vivian just one yr old at the time, Dora ( now decease) at the time twelve, Christina and me under the age of ten yrs.. Sometime when I sit I wonder why will a man leaves one of the safest place in the world, and go back to where there was civil unrest and people living in fear for their lifes was the norm, and with emphasis being a Krahn man and bearing a sir name most might disowned during that time. I cannot answer that question cause I am not him, I may be his Junior boy, a spitting image of him, what I am not is an ounce of a man he was, I have some memories as a child with him and those I put in an alabaster box but what I am so proud of is stories I have heard of this man, he was a man of character, courage, empathy for those in need strength for the weak and above all else he had greater love for all something those that new him said he was always impartial in his judgement of others and always seek the good in people. At time I wonder if these stories are all true but again as little as I was I bear witness to some of them, I remembered he paying one of our neighbors son tuition in Victory chapel because the boy and me was best friends, when he put me in a mission school he will take supplies to almost everybody in my dorm I would get mad cause I didnt feel special but as I grown up with out him I can see the impact it has on my life and my siblings.. And sometime up to this date what I really dont digest is why he decided to go a battlefield without any sort of prior military training or safe armor to protect himself from bullets and heavy artilleries. His only rational that early August 25 morning was his tribal men needed food and water. Yes it must be a good reason, if only it there wasnt a a heavy battle going on between the Arm forces of Liberia and NPFL led by Charles Taylor at the James Spring Pyne airport that morning, just outside Monrovia.. Somedays I wonder if he felt obligated to help others, but what I do know about caring and love for others that it doesnt do things as in obligations it does things because at that giving moment it is the right thing to do no matter the circumstances surrounding that particular situation you dare yourself to not just sit and do nothing; if in that process harm might come your way you will endure cause your selflessness and willingness for others to be happy and and succeed will keep you going.. Papa we had a short time in life with you, we had been able to live a fulfill life in your afterlife, I will always cherish these stories cause they are tribute to you and above all its is the connection that we have with you.. Your life remain a statement and standards amongst some of your tribal man on how to live a fulfill life. We as children promise to treat people with respect uphold everyone with love and above all else lives with a standard of integrity and always seeks moral fiber to be our core value.. Papa as first it was difficult to understand your reason for leaving America and going back home to a war zone, being the only passenger on the flight from Freetown Sierra leone and the last flight to ever land in Liberia as a man I now understand that if u have the convection Courage and is in the capacity to help those in need in time of difficulties it doesnt matter which part of this earth you are, you will find a way to give a helping hand if even it would cost you your life.. Cornelius, Vivian, Christina and me miss you dearly. Until we meet some day in glory we pray that your soul continue to rests in perfect Peace!
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:59:23 +0000
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