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The Beginning of the Yom Kippur War, 1973
While we're in Damascus, the war is starting and the airports are getting bombed. The headlines on the Arab side were bar, Lev line smashed Tel Aviv in three days. So I would not have wanted to be in either of those places at that time. You know, there it was not a safe place for us to be. And Claude's father worked for the Red Cross, but we had to get to Beirut for him to be able to help us even less safe than during that.