Dayton Peace Accord: World Affair
Participants began to line up for the parade. For some nations, there were only one or two participants; other contingents had larger groups, but all were dressed in their various ethnic costumes. Voices grew louder as the wait seemed to be interminable, waiting for the start of Dayton’s World Affair with its Parade of Nations.
World Affair was a yearly event that celebrated the proud ethnic and cultural diversity of the area. Lithuanians, Germans, Japanese, Scots, Irish, Greeks, and other people from around the world representing their ancestral countries, mingled together in the convention center for the three-day event.
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This week’s Carrot Ranch prompt for the 99 word (no more, no less) flash fiction was parade of nations. Check out more of them at https://carrotranch.com/blog/ or join in with a 99-flash fiction of your own. Let the muse take you wherever it leads.
nbsmithblog...random digressions and musings 
If we could see our similarities as well as our differences…
In more than just a few selected places – then perhaps there would be more peace.
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Yes, absolutely! We are all one family, the human family, and if we just could remember that…maybe peace be possible.
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The Dayton Peace Accord has nothing to do with World Affair, but it was there in Dayton that the Bosnian conflict came to an end.
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Look in your snail mail…. meant to get ‘it’ out sooner. Knew I needed more postage.
Just mailed ‘it’ this morning… bits and pieces. 🙂
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Will watch, and thanks in advance. You are such a dear and generous friend.
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Such a sense of pride and sharing wrapped up in such cultural events. Maybe we need more parades of nations.
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