Exactly
Jan 28, 2003 Uncategorized
Today’s news is packed with suspense, and I sure hope all this war posturing ends in a humiliating fizzle. Everybody acts as if we in the U.S. are untouchable, but when I think about the Bosnian immigrants whose kids go to school with our kids today, I know that war could touch us, too.
Back in their homeland, before they immigrated to the safety of the midwest, those Bosnians were ordinary people, modern people, educated people, just like you and me, schoolteachers, students, business owners, housewives…. And then, suddenly, due to political forces beyond their control, there was no money, and they were forced to trap pigeons in their own backyards for food.
January 29th, 2003 at 11:06 am
I think I was in error in the paragraphs you quoted. There was a great deal of political and persecution activity before the Bosnia/Serbia conflict and there was also a long war with the Russians a few years earlier.
So war was not sudden for the people. Please clarify me if I’m wrong. To survive, the peopled bartered their belongings. My brother visited Bosnia a couple of itmes and I remember the photos he took of the open air bartering marketplace.
The school teachers didn’t receive their pay from the government for a loonnng time, so people had to think cooperatively in order to pay their rent.
January 29th, 2003 at 11:24 am
I am updating that entry in my weblog.