Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to end the war in Bosnia single-handedly. At least that is what American movies would have us believe. But reality is something different. Watching NATO and the U.N. tiptoe around the Serbs makes me wonder, Should I feel extremely lucky to be alive, since I left my hometown of Sarajevo? I guess so. The Serbs can do whatever they please, whenever they please and to whomever they please. Taking 400 hostages is quite a task, and shooting down an American jet is crazily brave. The world is showing me that Serbia is the most powerful nation on earth...
...awakened by a telephone call. It was Colonel Chuck Wald, head of O'Grady's squadron in Aviano, calling to say they had made radio contact with O'Grady. "That was the first we knew he was alive and well." (O'Grady's mother, living in Spokane, his hometown, received a similar call within minutes.) The moment he heard the news, the elder O'Grady ran shouting into the bedrooms of his other two children. "I woke up Paul and Stacey, and we all just started jumping around," he said...
...Hometown: Lexington...
Sometimes, the real world intrudes on lifehere, but current events rarely leave lastingmarks. As a first-year, I watched with uttersadness as my hometown, Los Angeles, went up inflames. Desperate to be involved, I attended avigil to mark the Rodney King verdict, but it onlymade me feel more helpless. After Oklahoma Citywas bombed in April, students talked about it inthe dining hall for a day or two, but that wasall...
...Israeli, I know that the citizens of Oklahoma City are going through. I've been there: in Tel Aviv, when the bus exploded; in Beit Lid, just outside my hometown, where families and friends were torn apart by terrorist attacks. I also know how the lives of Americans will now be different. America used to be the place where I could go for respite from such tensions. No longer...