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Message From Afghanistan: We're Not Dead

Message From Afghanistan: We're Not Dead

Photographer Lalage Snow spent time with soldiers before, during and after their deployment to Afghanistan. The gallery can be seen at The Telegraph. Snow interviewed the soldiers before they departed, again after three months of service, and then a final time just days after they'd returned home. Above, you see Private Chris MacGregor, 24, who said in his second interview, “Most people get used to being away from home but I find it hard. It’s your fear that keeps you alive here. But I believe if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen and theres nothing you can do about it. If the big man upstairs could do anything, there’d be no dead soldiers. They’d all be alive. It still hurts when you hear about a soldier dying. You think about what their families are going through. You ask what they died for and what we are achieving here. I am not sure any more." more ›

I Am So Popular: Ima Let You Finish But F*#$K Bush

I Am So Popular: Ima Let You Finish But F*#$K Bush

Though I haven’t worn it in a long time, I still take it out sometimes, and the stories come rushing back. FUCK BUSH. Printed across a threadbare t-shirt, a gift my son made for me, delivering it as I stood in line waiting, opening day 2004, to see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 at Dobie. I used to wear the shirt pretty regularly, though I had mixed feelings about it. Not the sentiment. Oh no—of the many anthems and slogans I’ve adopted over the years, there is none that holds a greater place in my heart than FUCK BUSH. But I recognized a certain folly in wearing it—I worried I might offend people who, like me, hated Bush, but still believe certain words are “bad.” And whenever I put it on, I figured in some ways I was just asking for a fight. I mean, FUCK BUSH might be a factual representation of my feelings, but even I know it’s not some persuasive argument that might instantly win over rabid members of the Bush cult. more ›

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