report here on a particular kind of interviewing that we believe provides a rich source of insights and information about the interior life of children in war, data that might, in turn, be utilized in improving standardized instruments, and as an adjunct to those instruments during the Gulf War in February 1991, we went to Israel with a set of questions that had been generated by a class of 8-yr-olds in our suburban public school system / met with two groups of children to discuss these questions, and to get answers and reactions to bring back to the children at home / the Palestinian children we studied were developmentally around 8 yrs, although many of them were actually 9 or 10 / they attended an Arabic-speaking public school for mildly handicapped children in Jerusalem / the Israeli-Jewish children were 8-yr-olds on a religious kibbutz / meetings with these two groups were held twice, once during the war and once a year later / we visited the local US third-graders who supplied the original questions and so, were able to get their responses and carry questions back and forth