February 17, 1993
Dear Joe,
The trip to Grebak is very dangerous, hard and just horrible. But I had to make that terrible trip for food! My family had none! We were so starving and the outside world wasn't bringing us any food.
Grebak is an army mountain post that has food and supplies for us. The only problem is that they wouldn't send the food to us, we had to go there and get it ourselves in the freezing cold winter. There were about 200 of us taking the journey. I paid two kg of flour for the truck ride to Zorovici. When we finally got there, we had to travel by foot to get all the way across Zorovici. This was about two or three kilometers. The hiking was the most difficult part. There was a guide at the front of the line who showed us the way to get to Grebak and we had to wait a lot for everyone else in the back to keep up. Many obstacles included streams that were too wide to jump across. That's where a lot of the people got stopped because they fell in and couldn't get out. We arrived in Grebak at around 4 or 4:30 in the morning. Everyone was trading goods at the black market and we would set off again in the evening.
I left with a good amount of things. Enough that me and my family needed. When I arrived back home I was a hero in my family. There was only four people to feed but still the food only lasted about 20 days. I slept for about two to three days when i returned. The trip to Grebak is torture but i still do it so that my family doesn't starve. So that was my experience at Grebak and I'm sure a lot more men have stories like mine. I'm just glad i survived.
Your Friend,
Edin
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