Candle Melting

He was our senior for 11 months. He didn't become too tired; he established the literacy movement. He set the Koran class. He made the song group and …He had been all captives' popular face. Since the contagious disease tried to hurt the camp in Ramazan 68, he also became sick. The Iraqi soldiers, who knew him, didn't pay any attention. Abdolmahdi's sickness intensity was increasing everyday. When they took him to Salah-Al-Din hospital, the perspiration of his body had been extracted. One of the captives said "he had lied on the hospital bed, his hand capillaries had been torn and his nose had been bleeding. After some hours, Abdolmahdi Nikmanesh who was a soldier from Darab, closed his eyes without one who came to his rescue, and passed away. Some days later, the camp received his mother's letter (his mother's letter came to the camp). One of the captives read it in heavy silence which was in company with tear. "Oh my son, Abdolmahdi, how I wish to see you again while I am alive."!