The owner of Mare e Monte Italian Ristorante says Kosovo Albanians match America's enthusiasm about the Fourth of July. Here's where that gratitude comes from.

The independence war in 1998-1999 cost more than 10,000 lives and only ended after a Nato air campaign. Kosovo declared its independence in 2008, something Serbia still does not recognise.

It eventually withdrew its troops from Kosovo after a two-month campaign of air strikes by Nato in 1999. An estimated 10,000 people died in the conflict and about 1,700 remain missing. Kosovo ...