In August 1995 the United States sent three American envoys to Sarajevo to try to negotiate a peace agreement between the warring parties. They tried to reach the city via a roughly hewn supply road over the mountain. Igman, southwest of Sarajevo. They were traveling in a United Nations armored vehicle driven by a French soldier, but were all killed when the rain-soaked road they were driving on collapsed under their vehicle, which subsequently rolled down a 500-meter slope.

The four were: Joseph Kruzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs; Robert C. Frasure, US special envoy for the former Yugoslavia; S. Nelson Drew, US Air Force Colonel, on the National Security Council; and Stephan Reault, soldier, Army of the Republique Francaise.

Today, at the end of a gravel road that leads into the steep, wooded slope of Mount Igman, there is a memorial that marks the place where the four men were killed. The monument was built in 1997. Since then, every year on the anniversary of her death, U.S., French, Bosnian and other officials, as well as people from the local community, have gathered at the memorial to remember those who gave their lives for others could live.

The armored vehicle is still where it came to a halt.

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