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Michael Yon: Rollin' in Hash
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Yon: Hashed up in Afghanistan
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... Michael Yon tells the story of a hash find in Afghanistan, using photography rather than a lengthy essay to make his point. This story actually gets told through the voice of a soldier, who took the pictures and provided the captions. It’s lengthy but fascinating, and it gives a much better sense of the operations in eastern Afghanistan than we get through reports of battles in the regular media. This essay gets bookended by a few discoveries of hashish in large quantities. We hear a lot about opium and poppies in Afghanistan, but hash is a big problem as well. The Taliban ...
Michael Yon: Rollin’ In Hash In Afghanistan
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Our people in the fighting tell their stories better than anyone. This photo-essay just came to me from Afghanistan. Our soldiers are not professional writers, nor photographers, but they are very good at what they do. The rawness and simplicity of this powerful essay rings truer than any of us writers/photographers seem to be able to capture. It also reminds me of why I am so happy to be in the United States, away from the fighting, and how much I distress about not covering our people when they are in need. ...
