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...Indy Cafe. That's where we also found out that UNPROFOR troops -- United Nations peacekeepers -- and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's boys were mixing it up, apparently because one side had attacked the other. No one takes the gloves off to mix it up because of Sarajevo or Sarajevans...
Afan Ramic, one of our wonderful artists, cynically said, almost to himself, "Why the hell don't they just go off somewhere by themselves and fight it out like men instead of bugging us? They're disturbing our peace." Sarajevo simply ignores these battles among strangers because they really make no difference to us. We've long got used to the idea that nothing around here -- nothing, that is, except our intimate, bare suffering -- has anything to do with us. For months now, all the NATO pilots have done above us with the blood-curdling sound of their planes' engines...
...hideout near Gorazde, a museum-quality half-track from World War II and, finally, a T- 55 tank. Three bombs, near Gorazde, didn't even explode. Before that, Karadzic's soldiers had shot down a Sea Harrier, also near Gorazde. While we aren't great tactical mathematicians here in Sarajevo, this seemed like a big price to pay for such little return...
Maybe something significant was said on the radio about us in Sarajevo. Maybe in that great big world out there they promised one another to do something about us again. We don't have a clue though because we've got other things to worry about. The sun is still doling out some miserly rays here in town, but up there, above the city, on Mount Igman, the first snow has already fallen...
...With more snow and new waves of fog on the way, we'll be left alone in our misery, left alone to wait endlessly for more overcast mornings, forcing our eyes open to face another day. My nine-year-old son told me this week, through the crackling of Sarajevo's last remaining telephone line: "This is the third birthday I'm celebrating without you, and you promised to be here every time." My older son, already becoming a young man, says, "Don't worry, Dad; I understand." My wife doesn't say anything. She's just angry...