It is a holiday in Croatia today. Although few people are celebrating, it is sixteen years since the Operation Storm, when Croatian forces managed to expel in only eighty-four hours a large number of ethnic Serbs from the border between Croatia and Bosnia, where they were brought several centuries ago under the Austro-Hungarian empire as a buffer against the Turks. This operation would have been unthinkable without the American help, but the media are mum about the subject. All the people I know who took part in the fighting acknowledge the help, though. They also accept that the Americans guided the whole operation, as well as that the Croatian advance was ultimately stopped by the Americans. The silence of the media is yet another example of a myth in the making. Croatians will soon forget the American help, just as they have forgotten how the Serbs ended up in Croatia in the first place. The history of the entire region is written elsewhere, but that is hardly worth celebrating. Myths are much more to everyone’s liking. We did it!