After seeing Bosnia, I thought that the rest of the Balkans would be similar to it—a wilder and more foreign version of the Europe I’d seen before. We were solidly in the land of mildly-sketchy public transportation, cash-only establishments…
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War Scars, Sarajevo, and Falling in Love with Bosnia and Herzegovina
When I was in elementary school, I read a children’s chapter book about Scott O’Grady, a US fighter pilot who was shot down in Bosnia in 1995 over enemy territory and survived it. I must have read it just a…
