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In America, it’s been 42 years since American soldiers fought on the Vietnam ground, since they died or were wounded. The Vietnam War wasn’t popular and the soldiers didn’t come back from Vietnam as heroes. But today, people need to heal that wound, that one which is deeply in their guts ,to accept and move forward after that difficult period ,when day to day, you could have lost your brother, your father, your husband, your son…

That’s why once a month, from April to October, members of a Veteran group gather themselves in the morning to clean the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C, also known as the “wall that heals”. Some people say it’s for the visitor’s comfort to see the wall but above all, it’s to show that “these guys" – and ladies – aren’t forgotten. They’re never forgotten .At least they never should be forgotten” said in 2013 ,Forrest Lingenfelter, a member of the Rolling Thunder (a biker group who travel all around the US for memorial day and other occassions).

 It’s not only to pay a tribute but also a way to blow all the memory, Jan Scruggs, a decorated Vietnam Veteran says “this memorial has helped to heal many individual wounds from the war, psychological wound. By seeing the name and touching the name of one of your friend, many people do feel a sense of relief after many years .So washing the wall is kind a part of that too.”

On August 12, 2017, the NMFA (national military family association) asked for volunteers to wash the Wall ,and people, mostly Veterans, came alone or with their families, some say it brought back mixed memories because, for sure, these Veterans had lost fellows in this war, and had not come back home, but some did, like Steve Nelson of district Heights “I have 11 buddies on that wall, including my best friend from high school”.

So yes, it’s difficult to come to that sort of place and see so many names written on the wall, exactly 58,195, when you know that they fought for your country. So what would it take you to wake early in the morning during your holiday, answer an association such as the NMFA and go and clean a memorial wall? Because it’s your history and you have the choice whereas they didn’t.

So what would you do to pay a tribute ?

According a recent survey done in the USA at the beginning of 2016, we estimate that in 2015, children killed more people than terrorists did.

The stay-at-home mom named Shannon Watts created on December 15th, 2012 the association Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. She declared that she created the association on the same model as Mother Against Drunk Driving. It was created in response to the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut where the young man Adam Lanza, aged twenty, shot twenty children aged between six and seven years old and six adult staff members, before shooting himself, on December 14th , 2012. The goal is to demand actions to establish common-sense gun reforms by demanding actions from legislators, states and federals, companies and educational institutions.


The actions of the association started with a Facebook page entitled “One Million Moms for Gun Control”. At the end of 2013, the group welcomed 130,000 members. In December of the same year, Moms Demand Actions partnered with Mayors against Illegal Guns to form Everytown for Gun Safety. The goal was to unite millions of American to work with them in order to make the things change and to end the gun violence that touch every states.

The fact is that Moms Demand Action is not against the wearing of guns or against the Second Amendment, it was just made to try to make children and families safer because many people think that there still are many accidents or massacres because of weapons. Moms want to do something to change that before it is too late : they want to be sure that there will have better controls when someone buys a gun especially checking backgrounds.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is everywhere in the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube). In fact, this way they can have a global impact, everyone can support, make a donation for that. Moreover, there are many demonstrations in the streets in America including in Washington DC, in front of the White House and then , they could meet members of Congress to discuss about gun control. Mothers want to have the biggest impact possible.

Inspiré de ce site : http://momsdemandaction.org/about/

Today, I'll talk about a great actor gone too soon. You must know him, because he played in a lot of known movies. I'll talk about the one and only Alan Rickman.

Alan Sydney Patrick Rickman was born on February 21, 1946 in Hammersmith (a neighbourhood of London). His father, Bernard Rickman, was a factory worker (who died because of a lung cancer when Alan was eight) and his mother, Margaret Doreen Rose Rickman (who died in 1997) was a housewife. He had 3 siblings, his elder brother David Rickman, his younger brother Micheal Rickman and his younger sister Sheila Rickman.
When he was a child, he had speech problems, his jaw was very tight and this was what gave him this very recognizable voice.

He had his first role at 7 years old, he was playing the main character of the play King Grizzly Bear.

He began as a graphic artist in the Chelsea College of Art and Design, there he met his future wife, Rima Horton, a British politician.
Later, he created a society with his friends which was named Graphiti and he was the boss of some graphic artists.

At 26 years old,Alan Rickman received a scholarship to get in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and that was when his great ascent as an actor began.

His first big role was as Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard with Bruce Willis, with this famous scene of him when he's falling from the building :

He played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves too :

And he played an unfaithful husband in Love Actually :

(During the same year,he was named vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became director.)

But he was very known for his role in Harry Potter as Professor Snape :

He played in a lot of other movies like Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton, A Little Chaos with Kate Winslet directed by himself, ect, ...

But on January 14, 2016 , Alan Rickman's family announced that after a long battle against cancer, Alan Rickman died at 69 years old.

Farewell Alan Rickman, Rest In Peace, we raise our wands to the sky to pay homage to the most fabulous actor of times.

#Always

The royal couple William and Kate had the pleasure, on May 2nd 2015, to introduce to us, at St-Mary's hospital's exit, their daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, fourth for the succession to the throne .

Princess Charlotte was christened on July 5th 2015 at St-Mary Magdalene Church with her parents , the Queen and all her close family . 

Despite her young age she is already making people talk about her. Indeed the photos where we see her with her brother George are the subject to all the admiration of British mothers , we must admit she's very cute and her grand mother Queen Elizabeth II is glad to see her grand daughter ! She's beautiful, isn't she?

Furthermore she makes the country's economy grow up! Actually she yielded almost 3 billion pounds to her country also known as « Princess Charlotte of 3 billion » by the medias .In any case British society is very glad to welcome a new little personality and the rest of the world too .

Since early 2015, Europe has faced a migration increase. But since September, migrants have left their country to escape war between the jihadist Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters. On September 3, a boy aged 3 years was found drowned on a Turkey’s beach. Syrian small Aylan, was with his family in the sinking near the island of Kos in Greece to join Canada.

This shot created emotion and indignation worldwide; many newspapers made their newspaper’s frontpage, but not in France. This picture has become the symbol of migrants' tragedy.
In total, 12 people drowned, among them, the mother and brother of Aylan, aged 5 years. Only the father, Abdullah, survived and returned to his hometown, in northern Syria, to bury his wife and children. Europe, where there was tension over the influx of migrants, was reeled by the death of the little boy.
French politicians have reacted on social networks , to try to stop the tragedies due to the influx of migrants in Europe, but also to honor the little boy.

This is THE NEWS of Summer 2015, Jennifer Aniston is now married !
After three years of engagement with actor Justin Theroux, they finally got married at their house in Los Angeles in the neighbourhood of Bel-Air in California in the USA.

The two celebrities met on the filming of the movie « Wonderlust » in 2011, and started dating in May 2011. One year later Justin Theroux did his wedding proposal in August 2012, during his birthday party at his house in Los Angeles, and Jennifer said yes !
This is the second wedding of Jennifer Aniston who had been in the past married for 5 years with Brad Pitt (2000-2005), when they divorced after he had been unfaithful with Angelina Jolie… Before she met her future husband, Justin Theroux, Jennifer Aniston dated Vince Vaughn and John Mayer, but it seems that now she has finally found her soul mate !

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt during their wedding in July 2000

Jennifer Aniston wedding dress during her wedding with Justin Theroux in August 5th at Bel-Air.

We hope that this fairytale lasts for eternity for Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux !

On August 6th, 2015, Japan commemorated the atomic bombing of Hiroshima which happened on August 6th 1945, seventy years ago.
A minute of silence was organized at 08:15 am in Hiroshima’s Peace Park, a woman and a child made a big bell ringing. This precise hour was chosen because Hiroshima was bombing at the same hour in 1945. Tens of thousands of people made the appointment at Hiroshima where one million two thousand people live. This city became a symbol of pacifism.
Hiroshima is situated on the north coast of the island of Honshu in Japan.
The city was bombed on August 6th 1945 and destroyed by the US bomb, “Little Boy”, dropped by the American bomber B-29 Enola Gay. A hundred forty thousand people were assassinated. The fireball declared by the blast attained a temperature about one million degree Celsius with four thousand degrees on the ground after the bomb impact. Apart from the hundred forty thousand people who died, fifty thousand people succumbed to the sickness caused by the irradiations.
Three days later, on August 9th 1945, it was Nagasaki which was bombed. This time, seventy thousand people were killed. Because of these two bombings, Japan surrendered in War World II and it marked the end of this terrible war.

Nowadays, two hundred thousand survivors named Hibakusha are still alive. These people are haunted by the bodies' burning memory. During the commemoration, some of them talked to the chief of government including Yukio Yoshioka who said: “these weapons will revive the war’s tragedy in our country. They must be removed”.
The mayor, Kazumi Matsui, asked for the suppression of nuclear weapons, which he named “the absolute evil” and the creation of safety systems which will not depend on military power. He addresses the “world’s leaders”, asking them to “come in the cities bombed, listen to the Hibakusha’s stories and know the reality of nuclear bombings ”. Well, representatives of hundred countries came to the commemoration, including Caroline Kennedy, the USA’s ambassadress in Japan, and Rose Goettemoeller, the weapon control’s undersecretary. Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, pronounced a defense speech against nuclear weapons.

Japan commemorated on August 6th 2015 the terrible anniversary of the first atomic assault. 70 years ago, the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and it reduced the town to ashes. This event urged the country to capitulate, it marked the end of the 2nd World War. This bomb had a destructive power equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT, the ground's temperature was 7.232 F, it wiped out all in the surrounding area. We assessed 140,000 people were killed at the impact point and subsequently under the effect of radiations.

At 08 : 15 am a young woman and a pupil took a lengthy suspended beam to ring a high bell. This given fact occurred at the precise time when the American bomber aircraft called Enola Gay, flying at high altitude, dropped an uranium bomb and spread fire and death on this big Japanese city. A crowd of 55,000 people came to meditate at the city's Peace Memorial of 1.2 millions inhabitants of the archipel which became the symbol of pacifism. After a minute of silence, the floor was opened to the mayor Kazumi Matsui and then to a group of young children.

The Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe was here, surrounded by the representatives of 100 countries, the largest number ever seen before in the ceremonies of Hiroshima. Among them, Caroline Kennedy, ambassadress of the United States in Japan, and Rose Gottemoeller, the American Under-Secretary who is the manager in the highest position ever sent at an annual remembrance.

Tetsuzo Kida, independent photographer present at the ceremony said : I want the world to know what happened, here, in Hiroshima, at the same time, Human is the cause and the victim.

We have Sachiko's testimony, an hibaskusha, also a bomb survivor : I ask all Humans to stop wars and I want the world to live peacefully

This event will remain etched in everybody's memory!