20th Anniversary Dream Trip Contest

Great Travel Moment

This is a picture of a bridge at the DMZ, the line that separates communist North Korea from the democratic South, leaving one of the world's only divided countries. After the war, families were forced to cross the bridge or not, knowing that once the decision was made, they could not go back, regardless of who was left behind. To me it represents the pain and loneliness that a divided country must feel, knowing its people are not united, but divided. Looking at it makes me both sad and hopeful; sad that the Korean people share the same spirit but not the same country, and hopeful, too, that someday things will change, and the line will exist only in history books