Bonus photos for “War Stories”

by Rita Leistner

Qasmiye -- An emergency worker with the Lebanese Red Cross stands on a makeshift dirt crossing over the Litani River at Qasmiye. The last bridge connecting the north to the south was bombed four days earlier.

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Anonymous: amazing! August 18, 2007 04:03 EST

margaret clare ford: This is the universal face of war and it makes me weep. Bombed myself as a child more than half a century ago, I realise now that the nationalities of both the victims and the bombers are irrelevant. It is always, whatever the pretext, simply violence perpetrated upon the innocent by those with a mind to violence. It must stop, we must find a way to stop it, but after a lifetime working for peace there are times when I come near to despair. Work such as yours gives me the heart to continue.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for these photographs. One function of an artist is to enlarge the imagination, and you have done that splendidly. August 22, 2007 01:58 EST

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