Most of us really don't have a clue what it's like in some of the more desperate parts of the world until it comes face to face in the form of some sort of visible human suffering. This last assignment for American Legion magazine was just such an example. Imagine living in total fear for your families life and your own simply for being a translator for US troops in Iraq. This man and his family were long standing citizen's of Bagdad and had be violently threatened numerous times culminating with a body of a dead victim being left at their doorstep as an example of what was in store for them. Now in this country as part of a program to help these folks he will be headed back to Iraq simply because he can't find a job here that will pay as much as being a translator in Bagdad. Interesting challenge on this assignment as I could not show his identity and still had to make an interesting and story telling visual.
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