While in Amman, Jordan, in January, I received a joyful phone call from friends in Baghdad announcing that one of their daughters was engaged. Broken Arabic and broken English crossed the lines-”We love you! We miss you!”
“What an amazing family,” said a colleague, upon hearing the happy news. “Imagine all that they've survived.” A few hours later, the family sent us a text message: “Now bombs destroy all the glasses in our home- no one hurt.”
No one was home when a car-bomb…