{"id":164,"date":"2005-01-31T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/01\/love-is-not-letting-the-soldiers-in\/"},"modified":"2005-01-31T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T07:45:00","slug":"love-is-not-letting-the-soldiers-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/01\/love-is-not-letting-the-soldiers-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is… Not Letting The Soldiers In"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to write more today in my zipping back and forth kind of way about some of the events and people that shaped my romantic life. Two weeks of Cupid=Stupid<\/a> to go and actually I am enjoying staying on one topic for a month, instead of doing the usual blog thing, treating each post separately and writing in bite-sized pieces. I like to play with the structure of things and move the beat around to keep myself entertained, but the freedom of blogging can be ruinous to good writing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Look, Dear, he’s trying to extend the form…<\/font><\/p>\n

To enrich the experience, I decided to link to other writers who are covering similar ground in this messy subject (see below). Then I read this article yesterday<\/a> about a Bosnian Serb concentration camp guard and his muslim friend. In our age of paranoia, islamophobia, eroding civil liberties, and the constant blurring of truth and re-writing of events to suit, this story is worth a read, and I think I can include it in my theme of love. Love is not a feeling, it’s an act of will<\/a>. In this case, an act also of great bravery.

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Muslims had been officially declared vermin.<\/p>\n

So they had to be concentrated.<\/p>\n

Every night Serb soldiers, back from the front, came to the camp.<\/p>\n

They wanted revenge for lost comrades.<\/p>\n

They asked the guards for the keys to the rooms.<\/p>\n

And committed acts of unspeakable barbarity. Of sexual humiliation and horror.<\/p>\n

Of all the guards, only Kole refused to hand over the key, says Duda.<\/p>\n

That was the only shift when there were no beatings or killings.<\/i><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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We’ve just seen the anniversary marked of the liberation of Auschwitz. Let’s not forget that these camps are still being built and operated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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