Do it anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough.
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see,
in the final analysis it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

-By. Mother Teresa

    

     This was Kent Keith's poem at first, but ever since Mother Teresa placed this poem on her children's home in different version, people knew that this was her poem. I like this poem a lot because there are many times that you need to think positive no matter what's going around you. Do not judge others or compare yourself to others. Just live your life! 

Let's go together this way - Nam ju Kim

Let's go together this way

Three is better, two is also good

Don't say I go first, you come later

Also I left here, you go first

Twos and threes, go with arms around each other's shoulders

Hand in hand with comrade in the world of struggle

Tens and Thousands, share our fate.

Don't go alone though it is two.

Cross the field. Cross the mountain together

Fierce wave don't make us stop.

If we thirsty, rest at the town over the hill.

Sunset is coming, hurry to go this way

Road became dark

If you fall, I will make you stand up

If I fall, make me stand up

Up hill and down dale, some time or other we should go this way

Way of ordeal, and white

Someone should cross this field

Way of liberation,Way of unity,Throny path,White path

Take a rest though we didn't arrive

Leaning each other with our sour legs.

 This poem express that the unity is the way of ordeal and bramble but at the same time we have to walk the way of unity together

 I could feel the emotion of the poet through his expression of eager to peace in Korea.Just like this poem, we should solve the problem of division.

 Hope peace in world and Korea.

Korea's beloved poet, Yoon Dong-ju

Prologue

Until the day I die
I long to have no speck of shame
when I gaze up toward heaven,
so I have tormented myself,
even when the wind stirs the leaves.
With a heart that sings the stars,
I will love all dying things.
And I will walk the way
that has been given to me.

Tonight, again, the wind brushes the stars.

-by Yoon Dong-ju

     A Korean poet, Yoon Dong-ju is the most beloved poet by Koreans. He was also an independence activist who had suffered and died in Japanese prison. This poet, however, shows his weakness and fear towards death. At this time, most of his companions were put to jail or sentenced to death for the independence movement. Yoon Dong-ju was the only one who survived and did not made a move while they were suffering. But in the end, he did follow the path of his companions and became an everlasting hero to Koreans. His name will be honored forever. I show my respect to his bravery and love for his nation.

Reference: https://jaypsong.wordpress.com/category/yun-dong-ju/

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War veterans whom shall be remembered for eternity

     Today is a Korean Memorial Day (Koreans simply call this day, “625”). And for the commemorating this day, I want to share a short poem with you. The poem is etched in stone at a Korean War Veteran’s Memorial in the Liberty State Park, New Jersey. 

We didn’t do much talking,

We didn’t raise a fuss.

But Korea really happened

So please - remember us.

We all just did our duty

But we didn’t win or lose.

A victory was denied us

But we didn’t get to choose.

We all roasted in the summer

In winter, we damn near froze.

Walking back from near the Yalu

With our blackened frozen toes.

Like the surf the Chinese kept coming

With their bugles in the night.

We fired into their masses

Praying for the morning light.

All of us just had to be there

And so many of us died.

But now we’re all but half forgotten

No one remembers how we tried.

We grow fewer with the years now

And we still don’t raise a fuss.

But Korea really happened

So please - remember us.

                  -written by. Roberto J. Prinselaar

     I learned that during Korean War, over 1,000,000 soldiers from 21 UN countries including Australia were involved in the war. I didn’t know so many countries were involved in this war! Not only the Korean War veterans but we also need to remember and be grateful to the soldiers who sacrificed to protect the nations. 

     Chairman Man-Hee Lee was also a Korean War veteran, and to borrow his words, “Why is young life thrown away without having had a chance to bloom because of war?” It was not their will to fight but the politicians’. Then why not politicians fight but send the young men to fight for them? The war should be never exists in this universe, even the word! We should be the ones who have to bring peace to the future generation and remember those who died in the battle fields. 

Reference: http://generalmacarthurshonorguard.com/Korean_War_Poem.php