Word: sava
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday morning services at Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, all of the 50-cent prayer candles are sold out, as are almost all of the $1 candles, a testament to the concern of many churchgoers for their Serbian friends and relatives...
...NEARO will still be raising money, becausethis is going to be an ongoing thing for the nextfive years," he says.CrimsonAlysson R. FordPRAYERS FROM SERBIANS ANDALBANIANS:St. Sava Church (L) and St.Mary's Church...
...units of the 1st Armored Division were ordered to roll south on the double from Germany. First, many soldiers who arrived by dribs and drabs in Kaposvar, Hungary, had to cool their heels for a week in former Scud-missile sheds while the bridge was built over the Sava River. Now more G.I.s are actually in Bosnia, going on patrol, watching out for mines and, of course, griping about the lodgings and the cold...
...their discomfort, the troops try to keep in mind their mission of bringing peace to a land that has experienced unusual cruelty for almost four years. The G.I.s have been reassured by the gracious welcome they generally receive from civilians. Completion of the bridge over the Sava, which enabled the first mass crossing of tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles into Bosnia, drew crowds of appreciative Croats, who marveled at the hardware, not to mention the exotic sight of African Americans. Amid laughing children, Specialist Dustin Graciak of the 3/325th Airborne Combat Team delightedly reported, "They're asking about our weapons...
...military policeman, Martin John Begosh of Rockville, Md., became the first American injured in the Bosnia peace mission when he drove over a land mine. But the mission is being delayed by a more powerful adversary than mines: Mother Nature. Efforts to build a pontoon bridge across the Sava River, so that the bulk of the U.S. deployment could proceed from Croatia into Bosnia, were swamped by the swollen river's floodwaters, which rose more than 5 ft. in 24 hours, sweeping away materiel, stranding trucks and soaking G.I.s...