Alex Duncan - Sweating the Metal

Much of Afghanistan is biblical in appearance with no modern technology for even the simplest of tasks. Here, a farmer carries his crop from the fields on his back at a strip village near PB Luke, Kandahar.

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Extract from the poem ‘The Fighter Pilot’ © by Bazza, is used by kind permission of (Barry) Leonard Thompson

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