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Quotations from the war-babies to be used at the end of the book “My life is full and I have defined who I am because of the experiences I have had. The past is the past.”- Amina Lynn Wolsey”
My parents are the one who nurtured and molded me to be the way that I’am today.”- Amina Lynn Wolsey”
I am my parents’ daughter and many of my beliefs and practices come directly from their modeling. Out of my life experiences, I take with me different pieces to guide me as an educator.”- Amina Lynn Wolsey”
As our parents celebrated humanity, equality for all people was believed, thought and practiced. With first-hand accounts of inclusion and mainstreaming, we are survivors of a road less travel. Our trials and tribulations have made us who we are. We had the visual appearance of minorities. However, we had been raised in Canadian households as infants. Assimilated into the Canadian culture, we were a new generation of Canadians creating new history.”- Amina Lynn Wolsey”
I am my parents’ daughter and many of my beliefs and practices come directly from their modeling. Out of my life experiences, I take with me different pieces to guide me as an educator.””I consider John and Dorothy as my Dad and Mom with incredible heart-warming love and had never pictured in my mind anyone else as my father and mother.”- Lara Jarina Morris”
Even if it was possible to find my roots, I would not know where to begin. I would like to learn the genetic history of my family, and from whom I have received my personality and character traits, however, I don’t think I could maintain a relationship with my biological family at this stage in my life- Lara Jarina Morris”
My family has always treated me as one of its own even though we are not genetically connected.I have never been made to feel ‘alienated’ or ‘isolated because I don’t look like any members of my family, and they have never made me feel different.”- Lara Jarina Morris”
As my understanding of war in general and the atrocities that occurred began to increase, so did my realization that I was a result of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. My birthmother was raped by a Pakistani soldier. This realization did not produce any ill will or discontent.”- Ryan Badol Good”
Emphatically, my conception of Parents was that of my adoptive Canadian parents. Any thoughts of my birth Parents were shielded by feelings of overall detachment.”- Ryan Badol Good”
Bangladesh, we were both bom of blood. We are both babies of a very tragic but important war. Out of this ferocious bath, you and I were born.”- Ryan Badol Good”
My name is Badol. I have two Mothers-one calls me Ryan, and the other calls me Badol. The one who calls me Ryan, I have known all my life. The one, who calls me Badol, I have never met. I was born in Bangladesh to the Mother who calls me Badol. Three weeks later, 1 was born in Canada to the Mother who calls me Ryan. A Pakistani soldier raped the Mother who calls me Badal. I am a war-baby.”- Ryan Badol Good”
In the crowd I was no different than anyone else. Indeed, in Bangladesh, I am no different in appearance than the locals. The problem is that while my genes are Bengali, my brain is Canadian. I am barricaded against the Bengali and I am barricaded against the western. This fact is tough to bear.”- Ryan Badol Good”
I started daydreaming and nightdreaming about life in Canada.
I became very turned off by rice. I craved for western food. So, 1 doled out the extra cash and I bought things like cheese and pasta and other stuff. This made me feel much better.”- Ryan Badol Good”
Knowing what I know about the circumstances of my conception and the time period, I have never felt the urge to meet or find my ‘putative father. I was told that given the war, it is most likely that he raped my birthmother. As for meeting or finding my birthmother, I’ve never felt an urgency.”- Shama Jameela Mollie Hartt”
There is part of me that would be interested in teaching ESL in Bangladesh, but there is a part of me that is also very conscious of what colonialism has done to the world, and in particular to underdeveloped countries like Bangladesh.”- Shama Jameela Mollie Hart”
If I were to meet my biological parents I don’t think that I would feel a need to integrate them with my adoptive parents or come to terms with them. To date, there has never been a void because of it. Happiness has never been based on knowing who they are, or were.”-Onil Mark Mowling”
While growing up, I had never experienced any feeling of isolation or alienation because of my adoption.- Onil Mark Mowling”
Upon hearing of the tragedy I wish I could have found my birthmother and let her know how deeply sorry I was for her suffering and that something good came out of her sacrifice (victimization).”- Onil Mark Mowling”
My birthmother is neither a woman of disrepute nor selfish and uncaring. There is no need to punish the birthmother for relinquishing her child. Every time I think of my birthmother, I thank her for trying her best. I thank her again for giving me up when she knew that she could not have offered me what I needed as a child.”- Onil Mark Mowling”
I am not attached to Bangladesh at an emotional level. This can be explained most likely by my early departure from the country. Emotions are created by thoughts. And thoughts are sometimes the reflections produced by experience. In my case, I have no experience that I can recall about Bangladesh hence, there are no emotional responses available for me to create an attachment for a country I don’t remember.”- Onil Mark Mowling”
If I were to place an emotional attachment to any place it would be Canada. My home. For it was here I was accepted and nurtured and loved. And that’s what makes a home for me.”- Onil Mark Mowling
Compiled byঃঃ Sajid Rahman
সূত্র : ৭১-এর-যুদ্ধশিশু-অবিদিত-ইতিহাস-মুস্তফা-চৌধুরী