"We were all just kids, crying and screaming."

"That's something we do when we feel like we're about to die- and he started doing that."

"I never saw him after that day."

"I felt like a huge chunk of my childhood was gone, and then I just became a man."

Tarek Turkey

Baghdad, Iraq

"They bombed our only airport."

"I was so young, but still old enough to understand."

"Being evacuated from your own country just felt weird."

"I didn't want to leave."

Zeina Zeitoun

Beirut, Lebanon

"It was just a hard drive."

"What's a hard drive?"

"I counted, there were six of them."

"My sister video taped the whole thing."

Besan Khamis

Reineh, Palestine