Desperate for Survival
Heroes Remember
Desperate for Survival
The air in Bosnia itself I could never, it was a rotten stench to
it every morning when I woke up. A rotten stench. It was raw
sewage. It was death. You could smell death in the air because
the graves weren’t dug very deep. When somebody had passed
away or killed on the front line, they would bring them into town
and they would bury them in what they called a rock grave.
They would just put them in the rock grave for now and leave it
and that started smelling. We know for a fact that people used
to steal clothing off the dead bodies, dig ’em up, you know,
and take their boots or shoes or whatever they had. It was
called survival and these people knew how to do it.
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