From left, Faisal, 6; Behishta, 5; and Mursal, 7, who survived a bombing, play at the graves of their sisters Khorshid and Parwana. Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Young Lives, Lost In The Fog Of War -- New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — These days, Abdul Farhad tries to sleep with the lights on in his bedroom and his eyes wide open, because as soon as he closes them he is back in his shop in central Kabul and it is 11:30 a.m. on the eighth of September.
He is sitting behind the desk in his office, a small room with a floor-to-ceiling plate-glass front wall, with a view he says he will never forget.
The usual street children are clustered in front of his car rental shop, in the heart of the capital’s military and diplomatic quarter. Khorshid, 15, dressed, as always, in a brightly colored tunic over prim trousers, is a skateboarding sensation who dreams of winning the girls’ world championship one day.
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My Comment: Stories like this one always makes my blood churn. The families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are also going through the same grief and suffering.
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