The breakout of a civil war in Yugoslavia pitted Croatians, Serbians, and Muslim Bosnians against each other. Due to the fact that my mother is Croatian and my father is Serbian, my family was forced to move to a part of Serbia the war would not reach. Sadly, this move was not a simple one because my father was in the army and we had to leave everyone else behind. This whole national separation put a huge twist on the war for my father and many others. Since Jajce was in Bosnia and Sipovo in Serbia, many soldiers from the cities fought against friends they could have been sitting with just a couple of days before. Not only did some fight against friends, some had to fight against family, such as in my father's case. These connections led some soldiers to evade their service and get arrested. Other soldiers did not leave the army. They simply did not fight and rather helped their families as my father did.