
Iran-Iraq War begins
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I Am Prepared to Marry Myself for Islam
Aaea had cousins and relatives who were killed, or martyred, as they say. They fled the country at the age of 17, 18 because they didn't want to serve in the war. We did military singing and chanting in high school every morning in the assembly,. And it was just like a performance every morning. The two sides began to bomb each other's civilian centres in what became known as the war of the cities. I remember getting in a car the moment we saw the rockets in the sky and sort of following it to guess what neighborhood its going to fall in. But it was just a matter of a couple of teanagers and some cousinsgetting in a car and
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