Class Year
2018
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-11-2016
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Last summer, while on a trip with the Eisenhower Institute’s Inside the Middle East program, I stood at the Israeli edge of the Golan Heights and heard a bomb explode across the border in Syria. We had spent the day within several miles of the war-ravaged nation with all remaining quiet until that moment, and while none of us wanted to admit it, we had the smallest hope that we might catch a glimpse of the conflict. However, when the sound of the detonation roared across the hills, excitement was replaced by a sense of fear and grief. I had lived a year in Gettysburg, yet I had never felt so close to a battlefield. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Jensen, Anika N., "A Middle East Perspective: Civil War Memory in Syria and at Home" (2016). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 143.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/143
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