Going to Bosnia in five days now. Time moves so fast, it seems only last week we found out that we were going on a trip we didn't expect. On Wednesday we'll all be huddled into two TP84 and dispatched in Sarajevo where we'll spend a week traveling Bosnia to "see the sights", which in the military means Baccovici, Vares, Sarajevo and Srebrenica.
If you don't know about it, Google it.
Or, if you have the time, read David Rodhe's Endgame. Tough read, but worth the struggle. It didn't win the Pulitzer Prize for nothing.
Going to spend all of tomorrow preparing for the Srebrenica station, which my group will be responsible for, making time lines, lists of Important People and gathering stories to bring the atrocities to life as much as possible sitting well-fed and warm in an air conditioned bus fifteen years later.
And the macabre thing is that I find it strangely exciting.
If you don't know about it, Google it.
Or, if you have the time, read David Rodhe's Endgame. Tough read, but worth the struggle. It didn't win the Pulitzer Prize for nothing.
Going to spend all of tomorrow preparing for the Srebrenica station, which my group will be responsible for, making time lines, lists of Important People and gathering stories to bring the atrocities to life as much as possible sitting well-fed and warm in an air conditioned bus fifteen years later.
And the macabre thing is that I find it strangely exciting.
the_matt79:
My cousin was over there when he was in the Rangers, at least I am pretty damn sure he told me he went through Bosnia, like you said, it's been 15 years so it's hard for me to recall off hand. Today his kid came to the house for Halloween as Wolverine, who knew that character could be adorable?