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that doctors decided was
safer left in. She made me
a hearty ham sandwich and
helped me gather the ingre-
dients of what would be a
i ne picnic meal. Stooping
to pick up items on shelves
lower than she could bend
to reach, I considered how
this woman's life will be for-
ever marred by that war.
h e sentiment I hear
from locals when I visit this
region is, “I don't know how we could have been so stupid to wage that unnec-
essary war.” I've never met anyone here who called the war anything but a
tragic mistake. h e lesson I learned from their mistake is the importance of
taking pluralism within your society seriously. While Bosnian sectarianism
is extreme, every society has groups that could come to blows. And failing
to i nd a way to live peacefully together—as the people of Mostar learned—
means everybody loses.
Smells like Bosnian teen spirit.
