And it was dad who helped me move into my new Philadelphia home following law school on what was a record breaking hot day even though I am fairly certain that he wanted me to come back home to NC.

FORBES: Thanks, Dad.

For that to happen says Akhmed Mohammed, who's head of the municipality, the residents who left during the years of conflict, some two-thirds of the entire village he estimates, would have to come back home.

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He walked out the back door and did not come home that night.

NEWYORKER: Cell One

"There is this mentality from where I come from back home that I have a little bit of a problem with, " he says.

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Imitiaz Gul from Gujarat in Pakistan said he had come to buy ceiling fans for his uncle's shop back home and had been caught up by accident in the raid.

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Bill so our veterans, including our outstanding Latino veterans, can come home to the same chance to earn a college education as my grandfather had when he came back from World War II.

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"What is happening back home is at the back of your mind but we come here focused on the England game ahead, " he said.

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