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\"Danube,<\/a>I\u2019m reading a book by Nick Thorpe about the Danube and encountering familiar scenes from the middle portion of the river we sailed on last year. Almost the exact photo at right is in the book, called \u201cThe Church Above the Waters\u201d and on Thorpe\u2019s BBC page \u201can Orthodox monastery.\u201d The rooftops have been restored and slightly redesigned–made rounder–since his earlier pictures, though, and the church has a new coat of whitewash.<\/p>\n

Vukovar<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Danube,<\/a>I wish I\u2019d learned more at the time about Vukovar, besieged by the Serbs in the early 1990s, and the memorial on the farm where patients and staff from Vukovar hospital were taken and murdered. The townspeople kept their damaged water tower as an ad hoc war memorial. A deteriorating water tower in my experience reflects economic hard times, but both meanings apply here. Thorpe says, \u201cThe doves of peace have taken over\u201d the tower now. Pigeons, at any rate. And he describes, Vukovar\u2019s most famous scene of rebirth: \u201cIn one of the houses near the (river) shore, still in ruins, purple flowers burst from the frame of an upstairs window.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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