Iraqis Seek Normalcy Amid Chaos

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - In the early morning sun, 12-year-old Walid Salim strides to the yard of his school, kisses Iraq's flag and hoists it high. At a lunchtime cafe, three 18-year-old friends gather to eye girls and talk cars.

Free to surf the Web, a university professor gleefully searches for news from afar. In a small house, a mother worries for her sons as news of a suicide bomb flashes across town.

On this typical day in the life of Iraq, shaken as it often is by violence, a whole nation of people get up each morning and try to live normally - going to school, earning a living, getting married, having fun.

Men, women, children and teenagers, Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, this is the story of one day of their lives."
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