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April 19, 2013

Afghans send sympathy and love to Boston, whose pain they know all too well

 A stirring photo project out of Afghanistan illustrates just how widely Monday’s tragedy in Boston has been felt around the world – even in places where the United States is often criticized.
Documentary filmmaker Beth Murphy, a Bostonian and marathoner working in Afghanistan, took the photos for “To Boston. From Kabul. With Love” after receiving a text from her husband about the bomb blasts that killed three and injured scores of others near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. His messages assuring her that he and their young daughter were okay, Murphy wrote in a blog post, reminded her of the many similar message she herself had sent during her trips to Afghanistan. The country suffered more than 15,000 incidents involving explosive devices (IEDs) in 2012.
From her post:
I talked to people here about what had happened – many had heard the news – and I saw the pain in their faces, and reminders of their own hardships. They said, “I’m so sorry,” with that defining head shake that doesn’t need another word of explanation; it says, “I understand.” …
I listened to good and innocent people express the heartache that all us feel when other good and innocent people are suffering.
Murphy is in Afghanistan working on the documentary “What Tomorrow Brings,” which focuses on a conservative Afghan town’s first all-girls school. You can see a trailer for the film here.





4 comments:

  1. All the same card. The people in these pictures don't know what is going on. Most liekly, they don't have world TV so these simply are a bunch of 'ignorant' people being used.

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  2. The saddest part is that our "government" is responsible for their and our bombings.

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  3. Would like to know how and why a 26 year old ATHLETE and his 19 year old kid brother could/would pull such off....? Oh wait they didn't & wouldn't. Well now DzhoKhar (Jo-Kar, pronounce it right people) is clearly having his life threatened and would probably confess to killing JFK....

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  4. I believe your the one whom doesn't know and ignorant about the situation. They've been going through what you just experience for years. They all know very well. War with red army. Civil war and they know how to servive every situation too. If you ever experience what the Afghan experienced, you will be commit suicide which most of you do after you return from Afghanistan.


    chaw.

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