Mohammed served as a volunteer at a hospital which consequently was damaged by a barrel bomb which made the hospital inoperable. He starts on his journey to a normal life.
Mohammed's Journey: A Syrian's long quest for a normal life
In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters take a wounded Syrian woman to Dar al-Shifaa hospital, Aleppo, Syria. In late 2012, Mohammed al-Haj worked as a volunteer in Dar al-Shifaa. The hospital saw a constant flow of wounded and dying.
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By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
Published: October 20, 2015
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In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, Mohammed al-Haj from Syria, right, eats a sandwich with friends as he waits to be registered and issued travel documents by local authorities at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece. Mohammed, a 26-year-old from Aleppo, was one of more than 600,000 migrants and refugees who flowed into Europe so far this year.
AT THE SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER — At the edge of a Balkan vineyard, Mohammed al-Haj lay down under a tree to collect his thoughts. Come nightfall, he and the other Syrians with him would make a run for it, past the fence of chain-link and barbed wire being built along the Hungarian border to keep them out, past the armed border guards.
It was a make-or-break moment in a journey across a continent. In the last few hours, he'd cased the border, planning how they would make their dash through the fields from Serbia into Hungary. His mind was racing. Had he missed anything?
His vision drifted up to the late afternoon sky, crisscrossed by the white streams of passenger jets. He watched one plane go by, then another, then another. Full of normal passengers on normal voyages. He thought of the life he was certain he would reach, in Germany.
"One day soon, I'll travel by planes like those," he mused.
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Mohammed's Journey: A Syrian's long quest for a normal life
Mohammed's Journey: A Syrian's long quest for a normal life
In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters take a wounded Syrian woman to Dar al-Shifaa hospital, Aleppo, Syria. In late 2012, Mohammed al-Haj worked as a volunteer in Dar al-Shifaa. The hospital saw a constant flow of wounded and dying.
MANU BRABO/AP
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By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
Published: October 20, 2015
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In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, Mohammed al-Haj from Syria, right, eats a sandwich with friends as he waits to be registered and issued travel documents by local authorities at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece. Mohammed, a 26-year-old from Aleppo, was one of more than 600,000 migrants and refugees who flowed into Europe so far this year.
AT THE SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER — At the edge of a Balkan vineyard, Mohammed al-Haj lay down under a tree to collect his thoughts. Come nightfall, he and the other Syrians with him would make a run for it, past the fence of chain-link and barbed wire being built along the Hungarian border to keep them out, past the armed border guards.
It was a make-or-break moment in a journey across a continent. In the last few hours, he'd cased the border, planning how they would make their dash through the fields from Serbia into Hungary. His mind was racing. Had he missed anything?
His vision drifted up to the late afternoon sky, crisscrossed by the white streams of passenger jets. He watched one plane go by, then another, then another. Full of normal passengers on normal voyages. He thought of the life he was certain he would reach, in Germany.
"One day soon, I'll travel by planes like those," he mused.
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