when WAR comes HOME
IN A REMOTE AFGHAN VILLAGE, AN EXPLOSION CHANGED ONE FAMILY FOREVER
THE IBRAHIM KHIL FAMILY SPENT THE NIGHT OF April 28 unable to sleep as bullets cracked and rockets exploded outside their home. Hamisha Gul, the patriarch, feared his extended family of 24 wouldn’t survive until morning. But the children weren’t afraid. They were used to the sounds of war here in the tiny village of Saed Tuba, in eastern Afghanistan.
By 6 a.m., the fighting had stopped and some of the children began walking through the dry wheat fields to school. One came across a sleek, dull-green object, about the size of a police baton, picked it up and turned for home to show the others.
Hamisha Gul tries to comfort his son Mangal after the painful daily cleaning process at Nangarhar Regional Hospital on May 26; a nurse
