Sarajevo Lyrics
[Instrumental]
". . . in the winter of 1984. As I arrived for ABC's coverage of the Winter Olympics, it seemed like a place where people got along. Although the Ottoman Empire had once ruled it for about 400 years, Christians and Muslims worship separately but peacefully every day. The sound of the muezzin calling from his minaret seems to blend with the Christian church bells. Our welcome from the people there was typified by a woman in a poor section in town. When she saw two American athletes walking uncovered in the pouring rain, she ran into her house and re-emerged with an umbrella for them. When they indicated they'd return it, she waved them off and said, 'Keep, keep!' Sarajevo had only had a shelter for itself - thousands of its citizens were killed, and we have no way of knowing whether the umbrella lady survived . . ."