[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/theyre-not-faithful-their-faith-is.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=65029
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks on Human Cloning Prohibition Legislation
April 10, 2002
Human cloning is the laboratory production of individuals who are genetically identical to another human being. Cloning is achieved by putting the genetic material from a donor into a woman's egg, which has had its nucleus removed. As a result, the new or cloned embryo is an identical copy of only the donor. Human cloning has moved from science fiction into science.
http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/bosniaandherzegovina/116080.htm
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
PEOPLE AND HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Bosnia's parliament declared the republic's independence on April 5, 1992. However, this move was opposed by Serb representatives, who had voted in their own referendum in November 1991 in favor of remaining in Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs, supported by neighboring Serbia, responded with armed force in an effort to partition the republic along ethnic lines to create a "greater Serbia."
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/09/10 11:56 PM
I was wondering again yesterday why I often think of that large pig being slaughtered, which is graphic in my mind, since I watched that 1981 film "Southern Comfort" on Comcast On Demand recently. Many times that scene of those graphic scenes of the hog being slaughtered will enter my mind and I will see those scenes replayed in my mind and I was wondering as recently as yesterday why I cannot get those graphic scenes drift into my mind.
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From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/5/1992 ( the Bosnia War begins ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 11/16/1961 ( John Kennedy - Remarks Upon Arrival at Boeing Airfield, Seattle ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 5/14/1992 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer circa 1992 and United States chief test pilot I performed the first flight of the US Army and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow ) To 12/6/1998 is 2397 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/26/1972 ( the departure of Werner von Braun from US NASA is announced ) is 2397 days
From 12/14/1957 ( premiere US film "A Farewell to Arms" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 12/14/1957 ( premiere US film "A Farewell to Arms" ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 5/26/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Tall Man"::"Phoebe" ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) To 12/6/1998 is 8217 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/2/1988 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"We'll Always Have Paris" ) is 8217 days
From 6/12/1930 ( Jim Nabors ) To 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 12087 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/6/1998 is 12087 days
From 9/25/1964 ( premiere US TV series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."::series premiere episode "Gomer Overcomes the Obstacle Course" ) To 12/6/1998 is 12490 days
12490 = 6245 + 6245
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/8/1982 ( premiere US film "Sophie's Choice" ) is 6245 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/07/well-always-have-paris.html ]
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/bosnia.html ]
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SPACE/USA: ASTRONAUTS JOIN FIRST TWO COMPONENTS OF SPACE STATION
Duration:00:03:20:23
Source: NASA TV
Space/Houston, U-S December 6-7 1998
SPACE December 6 1998
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour have successfully joined the first two components of the International Space Station.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=the-red-badge-of-courage
Springfield! Springfield!
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
You've got to hold them back, Captain!
You've got to hold them back.
All right, we'll do our best, sir.
Lieutenant, you mind me.
We got to hold, no matter what happens.
Yes, Captain. You men mind me.
We've got to hold! Can you hear me?
Get ready.
Hold your fire.
Fire!
Give me this!
Here, fire!
Keep firing!
The men look much bigger
through the powder smoke.
Bayonets as thick as a spiked iron fence.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/world/bosnia-calls-up-guard-and-reserve.html
The New York Times
Bosnia Calls Up Guard and Reserve
By CHUCK SUDETIC,
Published: April 5, 1992
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia, April 4— Battles raged in Bosnia and Herzegovina today, and the republic's President announced the mobilization of national guard and police reserve units tonight.
Reports by local journalists spoke of dozens of deaths in the fighting, which the President, Alija Izetbegovic, said had been caused by outsiders seeking to destabilize his republic and discourage countries from extending diplomatic recognition.
The fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina came as United Nations peacekeeping forces began the first stage of their operation in Croatia. About 50 people are reported to have died in heavy fighting over the last two days in Croatia, the Yugoslav republic to the north of this one.
Diplomats have said the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina could set off another round of uncontrolled battles in Croatia, where about 10,000 people died in seven months of fighting that wound down with a Jan. 3 truce, paving the way for the United Nations force. Aerial Attack Reported
Reports here in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke of heavy clashes again today between Yugoslav Army and Serbian units, on the one hand, and Muslim Slav and ethnic Croatian forces, on the other, near Bosanski Brod and Kupres. Sarajevo television reported that Yugoslav jets attacked Croatian positions near Kupres twice this morning.
Gunfire and explosions rattled the town of Mostar all night after an oil tanker packed with explosives blew up next to a Yugoslav Army barracks, killing two people and injuring at least 40, local news reports said.
The Bosnian President, Mr. Izetbegovic, a Muslim Slav regarded by Western diplomats as a moderate, said on television tonight that his office had assumed direct command of the national guard. He called on the republic's people to "defend themselves."
"We do not want confrontation," Mr. Izetbegovic said in an interview this afternoon. "Unfortunately, we have enemies nearby."
"The problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina are being artificially created from outside," he said, blaming Serbian and Croatian radicals for destabilizing the republic, where ethnic groups live in an intricate patchwork.
Western diplomats in Yugoslavia say the fighting is also an attempt by Serbian and Croatian paramilitary forces to stake out turf in advance of a meeting of European Community foreign ministers, scheduled to begin Monday, at which this republic is expected to win diplomatic recognition.
Mr. Izetbegovic condemned the guerrilla attack this week on the town of Bijeljina, which was mounted by the Serbian Volunteer Guard commanded by a reputed Belgrade gangster wanted for bank robbery and other crimes in Western Europe. Bijeljina, populated mostly by Muslim Slavs, is in a county dominated by Serbs. Yugoslav Army Assailed
"This is simply an attempt by criminals," Mr. Izetbegovic said, adding that 27 of the Muslims were killed. "It came to the murdering of civilians, unarmed men and women. We consider the army responsible for this event. There are indications that it passively stood by and watched what was happening."
"This unit has been glorified in Serbia," he said, "and enjoyed the Serbian government's support."
Also today, the first infantry unit of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Croatia arrived in the port of Rijeka. Hundreds of French soldiers entered the city as the advance guard. United Nations officials have said that the force will not begin its duties, including manning checkpoints and accompanying police patrols, until all its 14,000 members arrive. This is not expected until early May.
The ethnic Serbs have mounted a series of attacks in Bosnia and Herzegovina since late February when the republic's Muslims and Croats overwhelmingly voted for independence in a referendum.
These Serbs oppose independence because they do not want to be separated from the Serbian republic by an international border. The Muslims and the ethnic Croats are pushing for the republic to become independent because they do not want to be left behind in a Serbian-dominated rump Yugoslavia.
Photo: As fighting continued in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia, the first infantry unit belonging to the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Croatia landed in the port city of Rijeka as the vanguard of a force of about 14,000 troops who will try to keep the peace in areas held by Serbs. (Reuters) Map of Yugoslavia indicating Bosnia and Herzegovina.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-06/news/mn-439_1_civil-war
Los Angeles Times
Fighting Rages in Bosnia; Civil War Is Feared
April 06, 1992 From Reuters
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Violence engulfed the center of Sarajevo and other towns in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday, inflicting heavy casualties and fanning fears of civil war in the ethnically divided Yugoslav republic.
The fighting, the worst in Bosnia since World War II, came just one day before the European Community was to consider recognizing the republic's independence. Muslims and Croats are pitted against minority Serbs opposed to the republic's drive to follow Slovenia and Croatia in breaking away from Yugoslavia.
Representatives of the Muslim, Croatian and Serbian communities and federal army leaders appeared on television together to appeal for peace. "First, stop all shooting in the republic, and bring about a total cease-fire in all parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina," they said.
In Sarajevo, host of the Winter Olympics eight years ago, gunmen opened fire on a crowd calling for an end to fighting in the republic, killing one demonstrator and injuring 10.
Military jets screamed over the city, and several loud explosions were heard. Machine gun and mortar fire rattled through city streets blocked by armed militants.
Croatian Radio said explosions rocked Sarajevo and that the Yugoslav army seized the capital's airport during renewed fighting late Sunday.
"Fierce shooting from heavy machine guns and automatic weapons started ringing out from every part of the city. . . ," said the radio report, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
However, Sarajevo Radio reported early today that fighting had died down in the city.
"The situation in the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina is presently relatively quiet," it said.
The violence erupted on the eve of a meeting by the European Community, which may recognize Bosnia as an independent state.
Slovenia and Croatia have already won EC backing for their independence.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-07/news/mn-592_1_croatian-radio
Los Angeles Times
EC Recognizes Bosnia as Serbs Besiege Capital
April 07, 1992 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER
BOSANSKO GRAHOVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Ignoring Serbian threats to escalate a siege of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the European Community announced Monday that it will recognize the independence of this former Yugoslav republic now racked by ethnic clashes and paralyzed by roadblocks.
At least six people were killed and dozens were wounded in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, when snipers opened fire from a hotel controlled by the Serbian Democratic Party on a peace demonstration outside the republic's Parliament building. Among the dead was a 13-year-old boy, according to Sarajevo Radio.
The broadcast also reported that the capital's old Muslim quarter was shelled from Serbian villages in the hills east of the city. Croatian Radio, monitored in this Bosnian border town, said the capital suffered heavy casualties.
Masked and heavily armed Serbian vigilantes erected barricades around Sarajevo and other predominantly Muslim communities, preventing civilian traffic from entering the city.
However, tanks and armored vehicles of the Serbian-led Yugoslav People's Army appeared to be headed from the Serbian stronghold of Knin, in army-occupied Croatia, to support the militants attacking Sarajevo and other Bosnian cities.
In Bosansko Grahovo, about 20 miles east of Knin, unruly reservists riding in a mile-long armored convoy fired off their mounted guns as the vehicles clattered and smoked over mountain passes, flashing a three-fingered Serbian Orthodox salute and shouting that they were headed for the fight in Bosnia.
Snipers in a nearby encampment of federal troops also fired close over the roofs of passing cars, apparently for the sport of scaring drivers.
Federal army troops are obliged to withdraw from Croatia under the terms of a United Nations peacekeeping plan that is in the process of positioning 14,000 "blue helmet" troops in three areas of Croatia that were the main battlefields during last year's war that took 10,000 lives.
There are no provisions in the deployment agreement for withdrawal of the federal troops from Bosnia, and the siege of Sarajevo that began Sunday made it clear that the U.N. force will be handcuffed in preventing outbreaks of violence that occur outside the areas of Croatia to which it has been assigned.
The U.N. Protection Force--or UNPROFOR, as it has been dubbed by the international body--is headquartered in the Bosnian capital, but its mandate is to separate combatants in three areas of Croatia only.
Muslim police and Croatian reservists also erected roadblocks around regions of the republic that they control and stopped passing vehicles to check documents.
Croatian soldiers manning one roadblock near the city of Venica said they had blown up the road leading to Sarajevo to prevent army reinforcements from advancing on the capital, 35 miles away.
While both sides in the conflict over the future of this republic are heavily armed and often disorderly, the Serbian vigilantes have displayed a more aggressive manner. At a roadblock just west of the Bosnian city of Travnik, drunken vigilantes wearing black ski masks or lace veils to hide their faces menaced motorists by holding AK-47 rifles to their heads, even after ascertaining that they were unarmed.
The Serbian uprisings, which began last week and have taken as many as 200 lives, were aimed at deterring international recognition of an independent Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Politicians claiming to represent Bosnia's Serbs, who account for about 31% of the multiethnic republic, lay claim to 65% of Bosnia's territory, which they seek to link with the Serbian remnants of Yugoslavia.
The republic's leadership in Sarajevo declared independence late last year, after the 12-nation European Community made clear that it would soon recognize the independence of the former republics of Slovenia and Croatia. Those republics declared independence last June and won EC recognition Jan. 15.
The EC chose not to recognize Bosnia's proclaimed sovereignty at the same time, arguing that the Sarajevo leadership's declaration had not been endorsed by a public vote.
When Bosnian officials held a referendum on Feb. 29 and March 1, Serbs were encouraged by their political leader, Radovan Karadzic, to boycott the vote because its victory was assured by support from the Muslim and Croatian communities. About 68% of eligible voters turned out and cast ballots in favor of independence.
Although EC foreign ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, made good on promises to recognize Bosnia, they again delayed recognition of another former Yugoslav republic, Macedonia.
In a related move Monday, the EC agreed to lift sanctions imposed against Serbia, which it has singled out as the chief aggressor in the war in Croatia. Fighting in Croatia has largely subsided since a Jan. 3 cease-fire negotiated by U.N. envoy Cyrus R. Vance, a former U.S. secretary of state.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-07/news/mn-592_1_croatian-radio/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
EC Recognizes Bosnia as Serbs Besiege Capital
April 07, 1992 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER
The EC move to end a crippling economic blockade of Serbia could provide a face-saving reason for militants to end their siege of Bosnia, since they are not believed to have enough popular support to launch full-scale war. Muslims and Croats, who together make up more than 60% of Bosnia's 4.4 million people, are as fiercely determined to protect the republic's unity as the Serbs are committed to dividing it along ethnic lines.
A torrential rainstorm deluged central Bosnia on Monday, dampening enthusiasm on all sides for a protracted fight or manning of roadblocks.
Concurrent with the debate over recognition, the EC has brokered negotiations among the Serbian, Muslim and Croatian communities in Bosnia in an attempt to halt the spread of ethnic violence.
Those talks resulted last month in an agreement to divide the republic, in which no single ethnic group forms a majority, into cantons that would be administered by the most populous ethnic group in each region.
While the agreement was tentative and details were to be worked out at subsequent talks, Serb leader Karadzic announced that the Serb-controlled cantons would secede from Bosnia and join what was left of Yugoslavia--Serbia and the tiny allied Republic of Montenegro.
Bosnia's Serbian Democratic party announced more than a week ago that it was taking over police and security forces throughout the republic, although some predominantly Muslim squads, like the one in the capital, resisted the takeover.
After snipers fired into the crowd of Sarajevo peace demonstrators demanding an end to ethnic conflicts, Muslim militiamen stormed the Holiday Inn hotel from which the shots were fired. The hotel had been taken over by Serbian gunmen a month ago, when militants protested the independence vote.
Sarajevo Radio said at least four gunmen were arrested in the raid.
The Bosnian government, which distributed Cabinet seats according to an ethnic quota system, was reported by broadcast media to have resigned to allow formation of a so-called national salvation committee.
There were appeals by the leaders of all three main ethnic groups for an end to the fighting, but it was not immediately clear whether the calls would be heeded.
A cease-fire had been agreed to Sunday by Karadzic, Bosnia's Muslim president Alija Izetbegovic and the Serbian commander of federal forces in Sarajevo, Gen. Milutin Kukanjac. However, fierce fighting flared overnight and continued to escalate throughout Monday.
Sarajevo Television reported that Kukanjac had called on his forces to dismantle paramilitary blockades in the republic.
The army's role in the Bosnian conflict has come under close scrutiny. The Gargantuan federal force made similar claims of impartiality in the early stages of the war in Croatia, which it eventually entered with unmistakable allegiance to the causes of Serbian rebels.
Like Bosnia, Croatia has a large Serbian minority that opposes independence because it does not want to be severed from the Republic of Serbia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-witness-idUSBRE8340QI20120405
REUTERS
World Thu Apr 5, 2012 10:33am EDT
How Bosnia's war divided a city and a family
SARAJEVO BY DARIA SITO-SUCIC
I never believed war was possible in Sarajevo, until I watched it unfold from my window.
For me, it began on Sunday, April 5, 1992, when I was woken by gunshots.
Masked men were in my street ordering my neighbors back into their homes with raised weapons and firing randomly into the air.
I was 28-years-old, a Bosnian of Muslim origin, and lived with my parents and brother in the hillside neighborhood of Grbavica, on Ljubljanska street that ran from the Miljacka River to the transit road circling the city.
Grbavica was the faultline, ethnically mixed territory that the Bosnian Serbs would take as their own, splitting the capital at the start of a siege that would last 43 months.
For a year it would divide my family.
We had witnessed the dress rehearsal a month earlier, when Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted overwhelmingly in a referendum in favor of Bosnia's independence from socialist Yugoslavia.
The Serbs boycotted the vote, and set up barricades at the bottom of Ljubljanska by the bridge over the river, cutting Grbavica off from the rest of the city. They would pull back, temporarily.
Grbavica was a mixed neighborhood - Serbs, Croats and Muslims, including a number of officers of the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA), the Serb-dominated army of a country that was disintegrating.
We never believed the tensions that were building would end in war - not in Sarajevo, the city I loved for its multi-cultural history, its diversity and warm people. Ethnicity was not a question ever asked. Yet suddenly it became the ultimate divider.
On April 5, the gunmen disappeared and the street was left eerily empty. News reports said Serbs had again erected barricades at the bridge, and peace protesters were marching towards them.
I could hear sporadic machine-gun fire.
SHOT DEAD
Grabbing a small pair of opera glasses, I peered between the curtains. Two men with the white armbands of a Serb militia ran up the street and disappeared into the garden of a villa opposite our house.
Minutes later, TV reports said two women among the protesters had been shot dead on the bridge, 100 meters from me. I was gripped with fear. To this day I believe the men I saw were the killers.
A van bearing the insignia of the pulled up, and we shouted with joy believing the soldiers were coming to help.
But hours later my mother called a neighbor, who told her: "They unloaded the weapons and ammunition and gave them to the Serbs."
It was starting.
The gunfire came closer and we took cover. My brother, who had turned 27 a couple of days earlier, sat in his room, the TV on. Suddenly it went dead, struck by a bullet that could have easily killed him.
We fled to a neighbor's house which faced away from the street and I remember my father shoving a heavy cupboard against the front door.
On the radio, JNA General Milutin Kukanjac denied the army was involved in the shooting. I called in to tell the city what was happening in my street.
The anchor asked Kukanjac for his response. "There are no JNA forces in the Ljubljanska street," he said, and suddenly I felt we were lost. We spent the night fearing the worst.
The next day, April 6, is taken as the day the war officially began, when we returned to our home to find the windows shot out, broken glass scattered everywhere.
FAMILY DIVIDED
We resolved to join a peace protest in front of the parliament, bringing together Sarajevo's Serbs, Croats and Muslims in calling for reason to prevail.
But as we approached we encountered others running back. One screamed: "They are shooting protesters from the Holiday Inn," the hotel opposite the parliament building. We ran home.
I remember a drunk neighbor staggering into the empty street waving a gun and yelling, "Come out, Chetniks, I dare you!" The Chetniks were the Serb nationalists of World War Two. As I would learn, the Bosnian war was one that reached into the past to explain the killings of today.
Shots rang out, then silence. When I looked through the window later, I saw a blood stain on the street where he had been standing.
He was a Muslim. The only man who dared to help him was a Serb, who took him through the barricades to the hospital. Both would die in the course of the war.
On April 7, my brother and I fled, creeping between houses and through backyards to reach the next bridge on the Miljacka. We were elated to reach the rest of the city where until the war I had worked as a language assistant at the state institute.
Our parents stayed. We saw them a few more times over the next month, until Grbavica was finally cut off from the rest of Sarajevo in May.
They survived on plums scavenged from the gardens on our street, and later on aid handouts and food their Serb neighbors shared with them. They weren't allowed to shop at the Grbavica market.
The next time I saw my mother and father was a year later, following months of torturous negotiation with four sides that had carved up the city - the Serb forces, the Bosnian army, the Croats and Bosnia's special police force.
They were allowed out in exchange for two Serbs who wanted to escape Sarajevo. I tracked down the Serbs myself, and proposed the swap.
My parents crossed the bridge on May 13, 1993. I hardly recognized my mother. She had lost 25 kg (55 lb), her hair was turning white. She only smiled three days later after a trip to the hairdresser.
The war in Bosnia would last another two-and-a-half years, as Serb forces took the big guns of the JNA and seized great swathes of Bosnian territory. The Muslims and Croats fought back, and against each other.
Some 100,000 people died. More than 11,000 of my fellow Sarajevans were among them, picked off by snipers and random shelling from the hilltops that surrounded the city.
The Sarajevo of my youth has become like a myth for those of us who loved it. The buildings have been fixed, but the city is changed, and sometimes I feel like a stranger in my hometown.
Yet I know that cities like Sarajevo have an unbreakable spirit that will return once we reconcile with our past.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-06/news/mn-51582_1_central-bosnia
Los Angeles Times
After 3 Years, War Rages On in Bosnia
April 06, 1995 From Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Heavy fighting raged across the northern half of Bosnia on Wednesday as Sarajevans mourned the first casualty of the war, a university student killed three years ago to the day.
Soldiers from the Muslim-led government and Bosnian Serbs exchanged heavy artillery fire near the northeastern city of Tuzla, said U.N. spokesman Maj. Herve Gourmelon. Heavy shelling was reported in the hills east of the city.
The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA also reported intensified government artillery and infantry attacks around Mt. Vlasic in central Bosnia.
Meanwhile, Sarajevans mourned the first victim of the war, killed April 5, 1992, as Serbian nationalists began their fight against Bosnia's new independence from the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav federation.
Suada Dilberovic, a university student, was killed on a bridge that is now a no-man's-land dividing territory of the warring factions.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=65029
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks on Human Cloning Prohibition Legislation
April 10, 2002
Human cloning is deeply troubling to me and to most Americans. Life is a creation, not a commodity. Our children are gifts to be loved and protected, not products to be designed and manufactured. Allowing cloning would be taking a significant step toward a society in which human beings are grown for spare body parts and children are engineered to custom specifications, and that's not acceptable.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:33 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 08 April 2016
