Montreal (CNN) -- Home is the hardest place to find for children of immigrants, but for us, nothing hits closer to home than when a bomb goes off in Baghdad. Last week, just days after American troops pulled out of Iraq, 63 people died and 176 were wounded in Baghdad. As the son of Iraqis who left home in the late '70s, I find fleeting moments of hope that seldom return to me. The withering memories of my last visit to Basra play like broken records in my mind. I remember our grandparents' home, my uncle's dog and the size of the tires on his Jeep. I remember the smell distinctly but I can't put it into words. I remember feeling small; after all I was only 5.
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Days after departure of U.S. troops, bombs killed and injured scores of people in Baghdad
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Yassin Alsalman, whose family is from Iraq, says the pain of the war is far from over
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He says his relatives live with the grieving, the memories and the loss every day
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