Status Updates From Shattered: Stories of Child...

"As the second burst of machine-gun fire tore the air with its deadly rhythm, Jorgi clutched his stomach and fell to the floor, curling his body into a tight ball around the pain that exploded through his gut."

"All that was left was not pools of water in the sun, but piles of dead and dying men, some crying out for their mothers with their last breaths."

"At the same time I felt a tremendous pressure inside my ears, but heard nothing, and it seemed the whole world had erupted silently into flames of orange-and-black smoke."

"One last thing happened in 1968. The mail man brought me a letter on December 31, postmarked from Canada. It said, in cut-and-pasted newspaper letters,Peace."