European Jerusalem Under Siege Premium

I did not think about the war for years. Not seriously. It was something that had happened, something that had passed, something people referred to in fragments — statistics, stories, anniversaries. But after everything collapsed and was rebuilt in my life… after I understood that I had been working without being sent… after I saw my own work as something misaligned… The memory returned. Not gradually. All at once. I was sixteen. We were watching television. The war was somewhere else. Croatia. Names of cities we did not belong to. Reports we did not fully follow. It felt close enough to be noticed, but far enough to be irrelevant. It was not ours. Until it was. The explosion did not ask for interpretation. It landed on the roof of the building in front of ours.

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