Or a young wife roams the fields seeking traces of her husband. These are how the hours and days are spent in Kosovo. And it is likely that they will spin on for months, if not years, as this battered province attempts to rebuild itself. Then we must live in a democracy. We must join the world and have the right of religion and free speech and freely elected leaders.
Shock is everywhere.
Almost everything else is in short supply. Hundreds of shops were destroyed in Dakovica, Pec and other towns. People live on bread, crushed red peppers and beans. Coffee is a prize, sugar a dream and gas a trickle. On the sidewalks, conversation centers on the whereabouts of the lost.