In this mountainous cauldron the surviving cultures clash in a never-ending struggle to survive and dominate. In the competition to prevail, and at times to exterminate the others, atrocity and retribution ebb and flow without mercy, without end. Each revenge for past injustices creates its own atrocities to be revenged. It continues to this day. Generations of hatred and distrust roll on, each breeding the next in an endless river.
Children inherit the legacy of hate.
They are overheard being told not to talk or play with this or that child who falls on the wrong side of the ethnic divide of Serbian versus Albanian. And in this maelstrom of hatred the children are taught to carry on the cycle of violence and hate. Faced with daily outbreaks of violence throughout the province, as well as pressures from within and beyond Kosovo by those who would continue a war without end, KFOR implements the determination of 34 nations to stop the killing. And so KFOR functions as soldier, police, builder, mediator, teacher and healer. Every American unit has adopted a school to support.