Sarah Kanowski

So I sit down exhausted.

I kind of give in.

And then I actually reach across and start making some bread with him.

And then we just connect.

We just have a conversation.

Not the enemy and the fighter, but an old man who looks like my grandfather and a young boy.

We just start talking.

He asks what's going to happen to us now.

And I say, I don't know.

That's not my, I don't get involved in that.

But then he starts talking about what it's like in Iraq and what it's like in Iraq when these sanctions have been on them for so long.

But now we've like shut them down as in the country's getting almost nothing in and out.

He tells me that there's no food in the stores anymore.

There's no medicine in the pharmacies.

He tells me that people are dying, that his family members are dying.

And they're not dying because of war.

They're dying because of starvation.

And I had this little moment of, okay, this is what I'm doing.

And the way he's talking about this country, I'm making that a reality right now.

I knew that we'd probably go out the next night for another boarding.