From Bosnian refugee to beneficent radio host
Sunni, recently after joining WPGC-FM in 2011. Photo courtesy TheFabEmpire.com When the Puric family touched down in Detroit 17 years ago Saturday, it was not the land of milk, honey and palm trees that the kids had seen on TV. Instead, riding in a van from the airport through the streets of Hamtramck, MI, reality set in: this quiet, blue-collar town was the America they’d be calling home. A then 12-year-old Vildana Puric spoke no English, nor did her siblings. But they’d spent the past three years on the run, after being uprooted from their home in Donji Purici, Bosnia, from the war and ethnic cleansing that tore apart the old Republic of Yugoslavia. Now, a star of middays at WPGC-FM, she goes by “Sunni” and her popularity across the DMV is well-established. read the rest of the long article about her past in Bosnia as a refugee directly in The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/01/24/fr...