An event that changed your life

Between the fall of 1979 and the summer of 1988 many events happened that changed my life,but it was one particular day which changed my life forever. An icy cold winter night in 1987,I was at my desk studying for the next day exam .My mom's aunt was at our home .They were talking and laughing. "Oh can some one tell them to be less loud , I can't concentrate"; I thought.I looked outside from my bedroom window it was dark and snowing ,and I wondered if school would be closed because of the snow.Suddenly, I heard a dreadful explosion then, everything started shaking. Before I could realize what was happening , I heard another sound of explosion and echo of the red alert : " Attention ,Attention !! The siren you heard is the danger signal . Red alert! Leave at once and prepare to go to your shelters! then , the house went completely dark .It was another black out . I ran to the basement which we were using as a shelter during the Iraqi attacks. This was another air attack on Tehran by Iraqis, but this time was different.They attacked Tehran with missiles . In a period of the few hours, fourteen missiles hit Tehran . After the first day of attacks , my family decided to leave the town. Therefore , we went north towards the Caspian sea and stayed in our summer house for almost five months . On our way to north I witnessed how Tehran was covered by sorrow and sadness. The sky was gray and orange at a different part of city with smoke rising from the fire where the missiles had landed . In one night , the over-populated and polluted city had become a ghost town. I witnessed people who had pity in their eyes . Wanderers like a lost child looking for her mom, they were looking for their families in places ruined by missiles . All I could think of was the lines I used to read by Eliot: " Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future , and time future contained in time past ". Is there going to be any future in our homeland ?! I felt tears running down my cheeks.
Nineteen years have passed since the war ended , but I still can feel my heart shaking when I remember the sad and defenseless faces of my fellow citizens .
I wish for a day that the world sees no person homeless from war and I hope to see the day that everyone lives with love and peace.