Some got quite a heavy load in their baggage

Even though some are amazingly upbeat in this country whilst living under their current circumstances SOME in the older age group might at times look sad as well...  and it's easy to forget there might be a genuine reason behind it. 

 

Today we understood this better when one of our sisters related her own firsthand experience during the Nicaraguan revolution. It's now easier to grasp the full extent of the misery and struggle some had to go through when she told us face to face. 

Many in her family literally had all physical assets taken from them and they then had to walk all the way to Honduras for protection. There they lived in the bush without food and they only had one set of clothes. Of course a lot happened during the time but I can't go into detail. 

So many have simply "seen a lot of things that people should never see" and it changed them as people whilst they tried to live a lives on the run. 

This proxy war took place 1960-1990 and it killed around 2% of the population here.