THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2023 5 October 2023 Volume 100, No. 8 29 Our Foreign Service Adoption Journey By Clayton Bond 33 Cultural Identity Formation in Third Culture Kids By Lia Miller Cover Story 22 Crisis at the Russian White House, 1993 On the 30th anniversary of what Russians call the “October Coup,” a veteran FSO offers an inside view of the fateful standoff between the president and the legislature in Moscow. By Louis D. Sell Feature 48 Doggedly Pet transport is a daunting task. This semifictional account does not stray far from its absurdly exasperating reality. By Jean A. Monfort FS Heritage 52 U.S. Consul Thayer's Beethoven The best biography of the great Ludwig van Beethoven was written by a U.S. diplomat in the late 19th century. Here is the story. By Luciano Mangiafico 37 Resources for Raising Foreign Service Kids By John K. Naland 40 How One FS Kid Created a Human Rights Organization By Aidan Gorman 43 Third Culture Kids: The Enduring Effects of Formative Years in Cairo By Mary Mariko Muro, Jill P. Strachan, and John R. Whitman Focus on FS Families at Home
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