Before the U.S.A. Destruction !

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Afghanistan was just a beautiful place !

Afghan girls coming home from school.

"Afghan girls, as well as boys, were educated up to the high school level, and although girls (and boys) wore uniforms,

the girls were not allowed to wear a chadri (burka) on their way to secondary school.

Able young women attended college, as did the boys.

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The Salang Tunnel, located in Parwan province, is a link between northern and southern Afghanistan

crossing the Hindu Kush mountain range under the difficult Salang Pass.

The Soviet-built tunnel opened in 1964.

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"For the year that I was in Kabul, my family lived in a house in Shari-Nau, up the road from the

Shari-Nau Park.

My parents had lived in Denver, Colorado in the 1940s.

My mother would say that Kabul reminded her of Denver :

about a mile in altitude, often sunny, with beautiful mountains in the distance.

I thought it seemed somewhat like Arizona because of the arid landscape and lack of rain.

Since I was born [in Arizona], it was very easy for me to appreciate the stark beauty of the

landscape there in Afghanistan."

- Peg Podlich.

Man used to be Frying jilabee, a sweet dessert with their children while belting out Music ~. 

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The Podlich family

Many thanks to Patrick Traylor, of the Denver Post :

who pulled this collection of photographs together.