On March 24, 1999, NATO dropped the first bombs on Serbian military targets in Kosovo and in Serbia proper. It was the beginning of a 78-day campaign to end the war in Kosovo. Twenty years later, the need to deal with the past remains stronger than ever.

A while ago, we asked our readers to send us personal accounts of their memories surrounding these events. Furtuna Sheremeti was one of the respondents to our call, “Where were you when the bombs fell?”

“78 days of fire, a lifetime of smoke” is his personal account of those events and what they meant to the author, which you now can listen to as a part of our “Outloud” podcast.

Click the play button to listen to this new episode of Outloud, “78 days of fire, a lifetime of smoke,” authored by Furtuna Sheremeti and read on this occasion by a K2.0 narrator. You can listen to it on our website, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or any of your favorite podcast apps.

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