Bali bombings

Survivor Felicity Boucher was deeply traumatised when she was caught up in the 2002 terrorist attack.

As she watched a mushroom-like cloud rise in the sky, the noise and smell became overwhelming. It was not until the 10th anniversary in Bali when she chanced upon his parents and was able to keep her promise. The man had lost a leg and he asked Boucher to tell his parents how much he loved them and to reassure them he wasn’t alone when he died. Boucher, 51, will not mark Wednesday’s commemoration in Bali. “I can smell the gas, the explosive odour, burning flesh and I can hear the screams of people,” she says. Wandering through the carnage, Boucher heard a young man screaming for help and instinctively knelt and cradled him as he died in her arms.

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“I feel even more so now [the need] to be there for my mother, to protect her, to care for her.” “I am very close to my mother. But I know I was vengeful.” When I returned home from school I cried and demanded my mother bring my father home. [Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here](https://www.smh.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p56l7u). “She would always answer ‘he is away for work and he will return later with toys’,” he said. “My dad was struggling to support us and trying to be a mother for me and my older brother Dimas, who was seven at the time. For years after that I was still angry,” he said. He was lost, he was depressed.” “I am making plans. I am preparing for my future. He just circled the area every day, not knowing exactly what he was hoping to find or what he was looking for.

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