@AnarchoNinaWrites On an OSCE election supervision mission on Kosovo. We got invited to the home of one of our translators.
"Why are you here?" the parents asked. Meaning, why have you given up a fortnight's pay to volunteer to come and live five to a room in a place with no hot water to work a 30 hour day in the freezing cold just to help us?
I explained that my grandparents' generation had done fuck all about the reports coming out of Germany, and although the reaction to the impending genocide in Kosovo had been getting towards the too-little-too-late stage, at least "we" eventually actually did something this time.
And whilst I couldn't help with the military intervention, that not being my skill set, when it came to helping run an election that *was* something I could contribute to.
"So that is why I, a Jew, am sitting in your Muslim household, depending for my safety on those German squaddies down the road", I said.
They understood.