Share Your Story

Have you visited the Crucible of War website or seen our documentary film and now want to share your own Balkan story with others? Whether you are currently or formerly from any of the countries or territories of what was once Yugoslavia, this is the place to let your thoughts flow. Current and former members of the international community who have worked or served in the region are also welcome to share your own experiences.

We have a few groundrules:

1) You can post in any language, but please be aware that most of our readers understand English. While we spent the first year of this project, translating all comments into English, we no longer can afford the time or expense.

2) Different viewpoints are welcome here, but please don't mistake us allowing these viewpoints on our website for us condoning these opinions. The opinions belong to those individuals and not to the Crucible of War team.

3) We reserve the right to remove any postings which contain irrelevant comments, advertising, obscenity, or are one line nationalistic rantings. Please remember that many of the people who read these pages are not necessarily familiar with the region and are visiting the site to understand more. If you have strong political viewpoints, why not explain your personal experiences which are behind them?

Oh, and if you are wondering why the first 337 posts were made anonymously on November 19 and 25, 2006, they weren't. Those are the dates we converted from our outdated feedback pages on our website to a blogging program. Unfortunately we could not migrate the posting dates over, but those posts were made between 2000 and 2006.

Feedback on Crucible of War

Welcome to the new feedback page for Crucible of War. If you have already seen our documentary film or visited our website, this is the place to tell us what you think. Please limit comments here only to feedback for us on the film or website. If you want to share your own thoughts on or experiences in the Balkans, please do so at our Share Your Story page.

We originally received many comments between 2000 and 2006 on the feedback page on our website. We have transferred that function over to this blog. This is why you see the first 20 postings all with a November 19 or 25, 2006 date -- we brought those comments over to this blog, but could not bring the original posting dates with them.