Three years ago an American soldier shot and killed our late colleague Yasser Salihee, a physician and a father of one lovely girl, on Friday June 24, 2005.
My blog is to you Yasser,
Your friends and colleagues never forgot you and will not.
Every week we survive death. Every week we lose another friend or a relative.
Every one in this country lost a dear friend or a brother or a father or a mother or maybe all the family.
I've been in so many places Yasser, I saw many die. I saw children, women and men were killed by terrorists or troops and we will keep trying to tell their stories.
If we die my friend we will be dying telling the truth, telling the people what really happens here.
Your death gave us the will to continue telling the world that people here die for no guilt but trying to go home or to work.
Yasser, rest in peace for we will never forget you.
deepest sympathies
Posted by: Susan - NC | June 28, 2008 at 07:24 PM
My heart goes out to Yasser and his family.
Posted by: Graeme | June 27, 2008 at 02:09 AM
dear Dulaimy and colleagues: I am sorry for the loss of your friend and fellow writer. I honor you, D, for memorializing him as each year passes. You are a loyal friend--and show how friendship doesn't die. I hope in years to come you will be able to tell Yasser's daughter stories of her wonderful father, stories only you possess.
Here's to the time, too, when friends will mourn the losses of dear ones caused only by the ordinary tragedies of mortal life, and not through the senseless, man-made and inexcusable sufferings caused by war. Surely we will learn this lesson someday. Writers like you, telling the truth, help that day draw nearer.
Posted by: Laura | June 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM