”Enduring Freedom – forever and forever”

In Afghanistan some children are toiling collecting firewood for cooking the evening meal. They work hard, and they are sweating. The blazing sun is hot, and they wish they were in the shadow of the grey concrete building near by.

Eventually they move closer and closer to to the building and ends up sitting in the shade. What kind of building is this? They do not know, and they will never know.

Up in the sky, above the few scattered clouds, a silver aircraft makes it way towards the targets of the day. The pilot pushes a button, the aircraft shakes a bit, and the smoke of the missile points downwards.

The children hear nothing when everything around them disintegrates. They are freed from their daily chores in the blazing sun. They will never know and will never experience that this is, for them, what enduring freedom is about…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom

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