Latif Nasser
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And the money then becomes an occasion for you to say, not just I'm sorry, but here's what happened.
I think it's the token that's given with the apology and with the explanation.
In order for that Esperanto to work, it has to say the same meaning to both sides, which for John Tracy wasn't really about the money at all, or not just about the money.
It was as much about the envelope that the money was in, or that there was a real person there to hand it to them.
But most of them, they just wanted to look at somebody who's in a uniform and say, you really messed with my life.
And that opportunity is exactly what Abdullah Al-Taisi will never get.
His son was killed by a drone he never saw, operated by a man he'll never meet, on behalf of a country that still doesn't admit it was a mistake.
And so the money he got, which in the end, he says, was the equivalent of 30,000 U.S.
dollars, way more than anyone got in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Still, all he can do, without anything else to go on, is just compare amounts.
He can accept that only if he gets the payment equal to those...
Big thanks to Gregory Johnson, writer-at-large for BuzzFeed, who started us off on this adventure when he brought us the initial story.