Life in a Conflict Zone

About the self-sacrificing volunteers.

One says they get oil, one says they get rice, one says they get paid,

one says they were hired, one says that's how it is.

This is our living situation.

In the desert.

Shine the flashlight for me.

Come here.

Come here. This is where we live.

Look.

As far as you can see,

there's nothing. This is where we sleep.

This is the environment we're in.

Desert, desert.

This is our bathroom.

What are we dealing with right now?

Our current enemy is mosquitoes.

This is the redness on our skin.

You infidel!

Wiped out. This is our mosquito net, which

no longer does the job.

Now hold your flashlight.

Now look this way.

Then keep saying these volunteers go and get money,

get rice, get oil.

No, that's not how it is. Everyone who comes down this path, into this area,

these

borders, down here at the air defenses, down at the artillery, down at the

launchers,

takes neither anything nor money from ordinary people.

Only for his country, for his leader, because

May this land

not fall into unworthy hands.

Amen.