There's this video that I cannot stop watching.

Films a couple years ago in Mosul, Iraq during the first peaceful month that that city had

had in a long time.

The video is scored with this music and it starts in an ordinary supermarket, just like

an Iraqi A&P.

People walking by, filling up their baskets with bottles of shampoo and sunquake cola,

and baklava and box milk.

And all this time, on the linoleum floor, right in the middle of the aisle, there is an

empty plastic water bottle, two feet from the trash can.

Everyone is stepping over it, or walking around it.

Finally, a little girl, maybe seven or eight years old, and a blue sun dress with a bow

in the back, she lets go of her mom's hand, reaches down, picks up the bottle, and tosses

it in the trash.

Dozens of people jump out of the aisles.

And they're clapping and someone puts a microphone in the girl's face and asks her name.

She says, it's Sarah, she says, thank you for cleaning our city.

He gives her mom a box of chocolates.

And then she leaves, and the whole thing is repeated.

The bottle is placed again on the floor.

This time, it's a woman who picks it up.

Again, applause, thank yous, chocolates, and a third time.

Yeah, I was one of these guys clapping for the least people.

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