Voices from Afghanistan for NPR

Voices From Afghanistan: Combat Outpost Charkh from NPR on Vimeo.

"Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division has seen some of the fiercest combat of the war in the past six months while fighting for control of the central bazaar in Charkh, Afghanistan.

With about 140 soldiers, it has racked up 50 Purple Hearts in grenade and mortar attacks, ambushes and straight-ahead gun fights. The company has lost five soldiers."

Benjamin Lowy

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After reading this interview I have spent a significant amount of time at Ben Lowy's site and the site of his wife. There is something so hauntingly real about his pictures, in your face, unforgettable images, that I find myself remembering at the strangest times and causing some troubling dreams.