Staff photo by Ethan Hyman Spc. Jason Davis walks with a Serb child while on patrol outside Mogila, Kosovo. Davis is with B Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment. From here, the village looks peaceful. The burnt orange tiles on the village houses look freshly cleaned from a morning rain.
People walk about and chat with their neighbors.
But down on the roads of the village, the peaceful picture disappears. The tiny town is a microcosm of the tensions between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. There was a drive-by shooting at the edge of the village a few days back. It happened just down the road from a Serbian Easter Festival. And on Sunday, a town meeting was in session when someone came in yelling that a nearby house was on fire.