She imagined then how she would have to brave the cold and avoid the soldiers, find a quiet time and move as though invisible.
Walking for three months at night and often hiding in foxholes to avoid rapacious soldiers, she made her way to the Bavarian town of Freising, where an uncle was a city elder.
One of the Americans, Chris Bednarski, from the Houston Zoo, warned me to avoid the soldier ants, which will leave their jaws in your shin even after they're dead.
It was the only member of the European Union to avoid recession, soldiering on even after a plane crash in April killed much of the political elite, including the president and the central bank governor.
A soldier traumatized by the killing he has done is a casualty, he said, but such casualties can be avoided if soldiers are taught, mentally, to confront the act of killing.
Later, I would learn how to size up train compartments, looking for the robust grandmothers who were likely to share their roast chickens, and avoiding the soldiers who, no matter how reserved at departure, and how short the trip, would inevitably drink and leer before journey's end.
To avoid detection, the soldiers used an AK-47 seized from FMLN fighters to kill the priests and would-be witnesses.
To circumvent the censors and avoid delay, wounded soldiers could tell loved ones about injuries on a standard-issue postcard that left room only for their names and to categorise wounds as "slight" or "serious".
Whatever dreams Celestino Beltrán had of returning to the farm he worked in his youth vanished long ago, after he and his family fled the Salvadoran province of Chalatenango to avoid retribution from soldiers battling guerrillas.
China, which has about 300 engineers in the peacekeeping force, said its priority was to allow negotiations to proceed and, among other goals, to avoid putting its soldiers in harm's way.
