32 Years After Civil War, Mundane Moments Trigger Awful Memories - The New York Times - 0 views
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When you’re a child, how do you get through a war?A lot of Monopoly, Scrabble, card games, candles and windowless bathrooms turned into family bomb shelters, almost like a big sleepover — if you can ignore the hard tiles and loud shelling of some group trying to kill you for reasons you don’t quite understand.
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We grew up during Lebanon’s civil war and are now adults trying to live normal lives, raising our own families as the country crashes and burns yet again.
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For my generation, emotional minefields can surround the most mundane activities even 32 years since the war ended.
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