@Idzie – Thank you very much, I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I had a friend that escaped from this war, her father was a Serbian soldier and her mother was a Russian Croatian. She told me about constant fear on her walk to school in the morning. Eventually her parents sent her away to Italy, where she ended up abused by the adults who were responsible for her.

I was living in Madrid and was pretty oblivious to foriegn affairs but remember very distinctly becoming aware of this war because on the front page of the newspaper one day, there was a picture of a young Bosnian, with his Nike T-shirt and his Adidas and his baseball cap on backwards just looking like any other kid my age in the safe world I know. Except he was crying for his family that had just been killed in the war he was living amongst.

@the bad aunt – Thank you, that means a lot.

@Tabitha – I’m sure he has some haunting memories of that time.

@jen – I remember your stories of your travels through those areas and how deeply it affected you. It really does make you look at things differently afterwards.

@andrea – Yes, we sure do. I just wish more people, especially Americans and Western Europeans, would go to places like these to gain some perspective when they’re getting too caught up in who has what and how much money for which new things.

@grit – That’s fantastic that you took your kids to Yemen! You should definitely try to write about it, before the memories and what you learned there start to fade. Don’t think about it too much, just unleash it all. You can always tidy it up and edit it later if need be. Thanks for commenting!