Personal Stories from the War Front

CNN has a great new feature that publishes emails of personal stories of people experiencing the war in the Middle East. Here is a taste:

I am a Lebanese American currently staying at my family’s country residence in Shemlan, Lebanon, located in the mountains above Beirut. My fiance and I came here with the intentions of writing our graduate school dissertations and enjoying the vibrant city life, beautiful beaches and natural beauty of Lebanon. We now find ourselves watching in disbelief as the bombs fall and smoke billows in the city below us. As I write this I am sitting in the garden, amidst three dozen olive trees, a symbol of peace that now seems so distant. We pray for a resolution and anxiously await news of evacuation.

Check it out.