When Rose first saw Luke Skywalker look towards the twin sons of Tadouin, she knew much like

Luke, her destiny was to take her far, far away from her Bay Area birthplace. Rose talks about her

amazing journey, helping orphans adjust to a new life with a loving family in the Ukraine, how

Star Wars aids the children's healing process

and helps them to find their place in the world. You'll never look at an episode of Star Wars

Rebels the same again. I don't know, as an adult, you've got to be the one who keeps calm,

even though you're like panicking inside. You're trying to think, okay, where are we going to go

if they storm into our town with tanks and roll across the border into our town? What are we going to do? But with the kids, you just want them to keep a normal life and go to school and not think about these things. So one of my ways to decompress with them was to be able to watch rebels and be like, oh, look, you know, here on Lafal, they're fighting against the Empire. See how important it is to fight for what you believe in and to protect your homeland from people who come in. So it was always a lesson, like, why their friends, because their friends' dads were going to the front line. So we were talking about it all the time. So it was just, it was amazing how you can use Star Wars as a lesson, just a reason

to bring it up and let them talk about it. This is Steel Wars episode 211, wartime Star Wars fandom.

Alderani and Rose took Star Wars in Ukraine.

Hey you guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. And each week we talk to someone of interest about it. And this week we have someone that I have a fascinating interest in because this is what I love about Star Wars you guys is how people from all walks of life, all cultures can watch these same

movies and it binds us and then through social media which is sometimes not the

best place we can meet these like-minded people and it makes our experience on the planet's far richer

and this week's guest fits that description for me if you are on the planet's far richer. And this week's guest fits that description for me.

If you are on the Star Wars Twitter area of the internet,

you might know her as at Old Iranian R.

It's Old Iranian Rose all the way from the Ukraine.

How you doing, buddy?

Oh, I'm doing so great. Greetings all Steel Wars listeners. How hard is it to keep up with Star Wars in the Ukraine? Let's see. I

would say before Rebels, I wasn't following it closely at all. So, like, I never saw a trailer for

The Force Awakens. I just saw that it was coming

into theaters soon. And so I just showed up at the movie. I think I might have saw, I saw

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