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A sky on fire and a haunting memory

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On April 26, 1937, the sky over the Spanish town of Guernica turned black. Crucita Etxabe, then a child, saw bombs fall so close that she could see the faces of pilots flying the planes that dropped them. She survived the bombing to witness her town swallowed by fire and flames, with children screaming and a lifeless baby handed to its mother. The smell of burnt flesh still haunts her.

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