The same war produced victims on both sides who now share a neighborhood

Evidence

Like John and I, Hussein and John were connected in more ways than one. The same War on Terror that sent a working-class white man into a war that should never have been, pushed a Najaf native from the cradle of the Middle East into the belly of the Midwest. The war that ruined a man from within led another man to build a new life afar and to give life to Iraqi American children. It was absurd, but so was the war that spawned this existential duality. In metropolitan Detroit, the place that made me, yesterday’s enemies are today’s neighbors. Both are terrorized by nightmares of death and memories of hell that haunt them while asleep and shadow them in the din of day. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 204

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shared state violence can create fellow feeling across ethnic lines. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 46; A constructed shared victimhood unified diverse displaced German groups. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 184; Symmetric violence war zones retain intergroup friendship and helping acts. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 153