I haven't lived in a war zone, and I hope to not ever live, how many days I will have. I have known war only in books, on television or in films, be they documentaries or movies. That's why I never understood how Russians could work in factories in besieged Leningrad, how the Vietnamese peasants could sow year after year the fields, although the crops were consistently destroyed, or how the Bosniacs crossed the Sniper Alley in Sarajevo in order to buy bread, even if they were about to receive a bullet in the head. No, I refer not to the fear, but to the apparent futility of such acts in such a context. How can people to continue to live their lives in an almost normal way, when around is hell?
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