In such difficult situation I tried to manage somehow and survive that attack on my hometown. The first few days, after hearing air raid alarm I would go to a bomb shelter in the  basement of our building, with my wife and daughter. We were carrying some most important things with us: documents, money and water. There we were together with some other residents of our building, some old and young people, children too. Hours and hours of waiting were awfully long. We heard noise of jets roaring over sky, our air defense artillery shooting at them, detonations of bombs, missiles, rockets. And it was repeating several times during the day and night, so I never took off my clothes, always prepared to leave apartment, since our home was very close to several alleged NATO targets. 

 

 

As the bombing was intensifying and became more and more dangerous, especially after the Varadin bridge was blown up on 1st of April, when I was almost thrown out of bed by two detonations at 5 a. m. , we used to go to a nearby underground cafe (6 meters under ground), spending there time of air raid, and going home to sleep after midnight. The cafe belonged to our daughter's friend, so we were welcome there. There were 3 or 4 TV sets so we could follow the situation from safe. We watched in the same time our state TV, CNN, Sky etc. so we could compare information. We were watching direct pictures from Aviano NATO base where huge bombs were been uploaded into bombers, and we knew in few hours they will be thrown on our heads. We could just swear at them hoping they will crash down somehow.   

 


 

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