Khaliluddin Ismail returned home Sunday after five months of war in the southern Philippines to find his house ransacked. But he's still smiling.
"At least we have something left," he said, standing in a room with clothes, toys, ornaments and damaged pictures strewn across the floor.
"Others have nothing. They lost their homes, they lost their lives."
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