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Like any survivor of a catastrophe that took the lives of others, they all seem to feel a certain degree of guilt. That much was clear earlier this week, when four recent evacuees from Lebanon talked of their harrowing experiences, and how their relief at getting out of the war zone has been tempered by their continuing concern and sadness over the thousands more left behind -- both the living and the dead...
...press conference at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, people like Ayah Bdeir, 23, made clear that while they feel lucky to be alive, their haunting experiences in Lebanon have followed them home. "For the past five days, a feeling of constant guilt [has been] lingering in my subconscious," says Bdeir, who arrived in the U.S. last weekend. Bdeir was raised in Beirut, and left her mother and sisters behind. "I was in Lebanon when the war broke out, and the reason I feel guilty is that I escaped...
...Yasmin Hamidi, 25, the war was all she experienced on her first trip to Lebanon. Beirut's international airport was bombed on the day she arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi...
...evacuees are frustrated that the situation has not changed for the better in Lebanon. "The real story is the people who can't leave, the people left behind," says Stephen McInerney, 31, a resident from North Carolina who was in Beirut to work on his masters thesis in Middle East studies at the American University of Beirut before evacuating the country with the help of the American embassy. He has been talking to the press, writing letters and sending e-mails trying to get this message across to the media and government officials. Still, he admits, "I don't feel...
...thousands of refugees in Lebanon are quickly running out of food, water and electricity. For these four evacuees, it's difficult or impossible to get in touch with loved ones there - which is all they really want to do. Ironically enough, Ayah Bdeir says that, "The last few days I was in Lebanon, all I wanted to do was to get out. Now that I have, all I want to do is go back...