Zlata Filipovic was 11 when her world began to fall apart. She wrote a journal from Sarajevo, as had Anne Frank about Amsterdam during WWII (see Netherlands Road Ways). More on Zlata at mv.com/Writers-Corner/EVENTS/zlata. She had moved from Bosnia, and was in Paris by 1995. This is a chat session, with schoolchildren. You can also look her up in Wikipedia, search for her name there. Her family survived.
Teen diaries - more are surfacing, especially with video clips and YouTube.
Lebanon. An article in the New York Times, by Tom Zeller, Jr., on July 24, 2006, lists others especially in Lebanon. These include a girl who videotaped her escape down the stairs to a shelter during bombing. Her name is Galya Daube.
Beirut. Then there is Finkployd at BloggingBeirut.com. How else to even try to empathize with the war experience of these young people, in order to help us make our decisions here. What to oppose, and why, or support regardless. Personal moral decisions all. We are our government.
Israel. Also see Yuval Kantor, older at 23, but with a 12 year old brother, Eyal, online about Haifa, then under siege by Hezhollah, says the article. See (hear) the fake explosion at snipurl.com/Kantor.
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