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Olin Bynre
The Barlow RC High School
After years of oppression, unemployment, barely being able to eat. Today we have a voice. Today we can make history. Today we can stand united. It started off great: speeches about what’s happening, what we as united people want. It was splendid. It was peaceful. It was everything. It was nearing the main speech. Anticipation was soaring. Tensions were high. Then John Brooks came out on stage. “Us as a unified people have been suppressed for far too long and we will not lie down and take it anymore.” The crowd erupted into cheers and chants. Laughter was deafening.
I escaped to go and buy some food and heard a huge cheer. I was curious. I lurked around the corner and saw the royal guards celebrating. I quickly headed back to the festival as I know how violent the threat is to us ‘poorer’ people.
With a great surprise, the weather became a thunderstorm. This forced the guards out into the crowds and you could tell they were drunk as they sauntered over to the their horses. Then something unexpected happened.
Three horses charged toward the masses and mowed them down. I was in disbelief. I saw women and children shrieking, “Help!” A littering of mauled bodies sliced up, gushing blood, laid in the middle of the once busy street. Once a bubbling atmosphere, was now a scene of fear and misery. I was in shock. How could we be suppressed even more? How could they live with themselves? We’ll never know, we just have to remember the fallen.
