Training

All 3 of us were dispatched to training garrison to be trained the next day. It was the first time they were passing such a training course. They should be familiar with hard situations on the frontlines but two other guys joined them, military training turned in to a 1 month picnic for them. Two other guys named Ibrahim the first one, and the second one named Jafar. They lived in rail road square and already knew the others3. these 5 were together all the time during the training course. When the training course was over, they have been divided to groups and when they were put in a battalion named "Ashurians" They could have 48hours off so they could go to their homes and then come back to Imam Hossein garrison again and get ready to move to the frontlines. It was arranged as Ashura's battalion dispatch a company to the west and 2 companies to the North. Those 5 guys were in the company which was to be dispatched to the west. Their families gathered in front of the exit. So they could see their sons off. At 11:30 Am dispatching forces to west got into the buses which were waiting outside the garrison and would head to frontlines finally.

By that time Hamid was 23, Jafar 19, Ibrahim 22, Hossein 22 and Karim 21 years old.