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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
People don't want to abandon their homes and lose the little they have -- they hope for the best but it only gets worse.
Can you imagine what it would be like to leave your home with only what you can carry? They don't rent U-Haul trucks in Syria ...
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When I was 12 I entered a new reality where my life was in a backpack, everything I knew was gone, no family nothing, a world of complete strangers and trying to get into their head to see what they wanted you to be to create stability with a stranger.
When I was 30 I gave away everything (including my car) and moved my son and I to Oz with 2 carryon bags as all we had +$800 in the bank, plus whatever my weekly site income was then. Basically the same scario when we left Oz back to the U.S. So I can understand losing money, losing all material things, cutting losses and entering a new reality. I'm detached from emotion that way.
I've never been an adult refugee, let alone a refugee with a family, where your new reality is a new city/country where you're likely not wanted and have no money & no work or prospects for work & have to worry about a new diaper in a few hours and no milk for your baby no food in your stomach for over a day and walking for hours with nothing in sight.
The Syria civil war has been going on for over 6 years.
I admire the rebels commitment & decision to put their children in harm's way to stand their ground and possibly sacrificing the most important gift of all in one's life it, shows valor & spirit. It sucks that we live in a world where these kinds of things even have to be considered in this day and age.
Even worse is these people leaving that hell and being gifted a chance at a new productive life in America only to be demonized as a likely terrorist by a new president who wants bottom rung support from hateful people. I feel for them.