April 01, 2003

What Can She Look Forward to?

She has just passed the "checkpoint to freedom." What does this woman have to look forward to now?

Should she be happy that:

1.) Her daughter can go to school and get an education?

Afghan children look through the gates of Fordosi school on the first day of the school year in Kabul on March 23, 2003. Ferdosi High School is the biggest girls school in Kabul and there are three shifts of classes every day to accomodate all the students. In rural areas of Afghanistan, many girls are still forbidden to attend school. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw

2.) Her child can get decent medical care?

A U.S. Army doctor inspects the ear of an Afghan boy in the village Old Salo Kalay, 4 kilometers west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. A team of army doctors, supported by American and Romanian Army soldiers, visited the village in an attempt to provide medical and humanitarian assistance. According to U.S. Army Sgt. Bill Hennesey from the Civil Affairs team, coalition forces are providing similar assistance to 73 villages around the Kandahar army base. The team distributed 300 'Humanitarian Daily Rations,' 30 radio sets, candies, toys and school supplies to the village. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

3.) Or that her kid can simply be a kid?

Afghan boys pick up flowers from a field in Bagram, about 60kms (37 miles) from Kabul, March 30, 2003 as signs spring arrived in Afghanistan. The emergence of flowers and greens after a rainy season is a welcome news to Afghans after years of drought in the country. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw


Afghan boys react as they receive toys from U.S. Army personnel, unseen, in the village Old Salo Kalay, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. A team of army doctors, supported by American and Romanian Army soldiers, visited the village in an attempt to provide medical and humanitarian assistance. According to U.S. Army Sgt. Bill Hennesey from the Civil Affairs team, coalition forces are providing similar assistance to 73 villages around the Kandahar army base. The team distributed humanitarian rations, radios, candy, toys and school supplies to the village. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

All photos first found on Free Republic.com here and here.

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Comments

It is scenes like these that show clearly the very good seperated from the very bad. These photos show the humanness of the people, our men and women in uniform give so much for. These photos give thanks for all the sacrafices made. Thank you for sharing them with me.
Stephen Schroeder

Posted by: Stephen Schroeder at April 3, 2003 02:27 PM

The same type of scene I well remember from WWII. Kids in wooden shows running along cobblestone streets, shouting up at us, "Chocalat, chocalat." Where were we, on the deck of a Liberty ship, going up a canal on our way to Ghent, Belguim. They sounded like little ponys trotting down the road, but their smiles were everything!

Americans were and are, as usual, generous, especially to children (and pretty young girls).

Posted by: howard e. at April 3, 2003 03:45 PM

I was just talking to someone who claimed that we had "abandoned" Afghanistan.

This is the best possible response I could give.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 3, 2003 10:14 PM

Lovely. Thanks for posting these.

Posted by: sharon at April 9, 2003 06:06 PM

As is now being seen in Iraq, the American Fighting Man possesses a heart of gold in the way he cares for the innocent victims of war.Without this heart all that Americans have ever done for the children is for nothing.May God smile upon the U.S.A. and Allah upon the people of Iraq.

Posted by: David Mengelkamp at April 9, 2003 10:03 PM

Thank you so much for posting these photos together with your comments about them.

Having traveled by road through Afghanistan in 1972, and given what has happened in that country since then, I especially appreciate seeing happy Afghan children. I knew when our military went into Afghanistan after 9/11 -- that the ordinary Afghan people would finally get some relief.

Posted by: Evelyn at April 10, 2003 02:30 AM

romanian soliers helping our soldiers cool

Posted by: evelyia at January 9, 2004 01:48 PM


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