News at Eleven: Of course, I grew up during the

Second World War. When I was 3 years old bombs fell on our heads because the war started that was Yugoslavia, in Belgrade. Nazis bombed the city on April 6, 1941. I was there during the war and after. I have a pretty good idea what war is like . . . what happens when cities are bombed, villages are bombed, what happens, life goes on. People go on as best as they can to live their daily lives but every night, when the bombs fall, it's a lottery, who lives or who dies. [--Charles Simic]

from NorthJersey.com: Former U.S. Poet Laureate on war & poetry

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