They have returned to their countries and moved on in their specialties. I returned to Iraq-to a practice more primitive than my classmates could imagine. I have become a stranger to advances in medical practice. I have set my jaw as I move backward. No one feels it more than her flyers, grounded nearly eight years ago.
People speak of no-fly zones in the north and in the south.
But it's all non-fly. Our tourist industry is dead. Aviators like me junk one taxi to save another. Or we just walk the streets and feel the bars around us and above us. And you are criminal if you come to visit us.