When I was last in Dhaka, I used to take my son out in the car every afternoon. Mr. Hossain and Ms. Kabir, an American citizen, were both students at Emory University, in Atlanta, on vacation; Ms. Jain, who was from India, was studying at Berkeley. According to witnesses, when the militants heard that Mr. Hossain was Bangladeshi, they offered to release him, but he refused to leave his two friends behind. We took his mini-sized soccer ball with us, staying until dusk when the mosquitoes from the nearby lake drove us inside. Tomorrow, I may recover my sense of those truths about my country that I know to be fundamental.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2016 10:30 UTC