By Dan FletcherThe Daily Northwestern
Artemus Gaye had never seen his family this scared.
It was July 1990 and the air in the West African country was sticky with humidity and fear. Civil war was spreading from Liberia’s eastern border, as the National Patriotic Front invaded to oust the country’s sitting president, Samuel Doe.
Artemus had never known war. His home had a Subaru and a Mercedes in the driveway. But now no one was safe, so Artemus’ family split up.
His neighbors, the Joneses as Artemus knew them, were the first that he knew to be killed. Their sin was being of the same ethnicity as many of the rebels.
