Struggling To Ease Painful Memories of a Faraway War
Dearborn, Mich.
Dearborn, Mich.
As his 4th grade teacher demonstrated an upcoming science experiment, Ali Roomy was trying to make himself disappear. Stretching up the front of his white turtleneck until it covered his eyes, he pulled his arms out of their sleeves and wrapped them tightly around his 11-year-old waist.
Ali does this when he's feeling overwhelmed, something that's happened often since the night his home in southern Iraq was bombed by Saddam Hussein's army in 1991. Although he ultimately escaped without serious injury, Ali said he remembers being left behind in the burning house before rescuers...
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