My son-in-law and his family are Kurdish.  One of his older brothers, and his parents, were gassing victims of Saddam Hussein as they fled their northern Iraqi village in the late 1980′s.  After years in Turkish refugee camps, they were one of the lucky families to find their way to America, to Fargo, North Dakota in fact.  My son-in-law years later now has just returned after two years working as a civilian contractor with the US Army in Iraq as a translator/interpreter.  He felt compelled to go back to help, and it even now, back home, looking into ways to participate in the continued rebuilding of his old homeland…

To read more about him, see THE WAITING PLACE – http://waitingplace.blogspot.com