Michael Versace

The Sandstorm Diaries Michael Versace

It all started after what was called the new world but, other issues came along. We had to run away from a predictable situations and as a military family with 4 children it wasn't that easy. I was a pilot. We had a choice to walk and cross the mountain and leave all the troubles behind; this way would have saved us but she told me: 'Children are the ultimate intention.'It was therefore a decision between life and death to fly a US Navy helicopter with my entire family onboard and flee the troubled Persian-Arabian Gulf just 13 days before the start of the 1990 crisis. The new world leaders were not experienced enough how to prevent a global crisis, if they were, the Gulf Crisis could have been avoided. And all the wars after. I was left with no choice but to get there before the invasion; they needed a catalyst to stop the progress of the war to a worldwide level; a war that wasn't even started. Love, family and freedom in the time of war, vague politic and espionage made me to change few names without touching the reality of the story that is an experience on resilience and it is for everyone. This tale is a collection by the river of my memory that is still gentle on my mind and true.