We Endangered Our Children

Bernie Bleske
7 min readApr 30, 2021

And It Wasn’t a Bad Decision

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The crux of it, the hindsight thesis, is that my wife and I took our two young, innocent, American and Americanized children to a place of violence. Did we know? There’s a yes and no answer to that question. But yeah, we knew what was happening in Pakistan before we went.

We’d accepted teaching positions at the Lahore American School, in Lahore, Pakistan. This…

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