“When you walk through the streets there, and you look at the empty houses, and you look at the remnants of mortar shells on the streets and houses with bullet holes and smashed in doors and windows, you know, it must be rebuilt,” Avrich said. “It should not be some kind of a monument of what’s happened. It is, in a lot of ways, a place of great courage. But I’m hoping that it is rebuilt, and we’re going to do what we can to help.”
