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Here you will see Sarajevo shortly after the war. The spirit of the people couldn't be broken even though their city was being destroyed! You would see the Bosnians enjoying a movie at the outdoor theater during the annual film festival, "Sarajevo Nights" where they would dress in their "Sunday best" to go out for an evening of entertainment. Sarajevo is a beautiful city, but after the war it was still littered with land mines that claimed the life of an innocent civilian almost every week. You see the cemetery below, Serbs, Bosniacs, Croats and Jews all buried together before the war. After the war, they would hardly speak. All the synagogues were mined, graves often had three or four people buried, one on top of the other. In each place a person died from mortar rounds hitting the streets you will find a "Sarajevo Rose." The "Rose" is made by filling the crater in the sidewalk with red resin creating what would appear to be a flower with several petals scattered around it. Unfortunately, I cannot find my photos of the "Sarajevo Rose" but that is just as well because it represents much human suffering. On June 28, 1998 I stood on the very spot where World War I began exactly eighty four years earlier when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated.
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