I was exhausted, but longing and nostalgia gave me the energy to walk. Hundreds of buildings and homes whose details I remember were razed to the ground, shop signs were destroyed, cultural ...

But the further north I walked, the more destruction I saw ... I didn’t trust that we would actually be able to go home until the moment came for us to enter my district. It was seven o ...

I was at basketball practice at school in New York. Someone came in and told us; we stopped playing and I walked home, stunned and disoriented. I got home, my parents were there – we just sat ...