A young child living in Iraq in 2003 experienced bombs falling and buildings burning as a library in their city of Basra was about to be destroyed, while elsewhere in the world the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl and American Idol was starting its second year. The document contrasts the child's experience of war in Iraq in 2003 with broader events happening in the United States at the same time through discussing the distance between Iraq and where the reader is while also noting the child would have just been starting school.