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I was stunned by my glimpse of the beauty, of that part of the planet and it's people, that is known as Afghanistan during Dr. Michael Pendleton's slide presentation of his recent trip there for Northwest Medical Teams. We saw gorgeous pictures: of snow covered mountains flanked by the myriad shades of brown foothills and mud bricks of the villages, of beautiful, radiant children, of proud, amiable men, of no women. No women -- except from a large distance or the one image of the woman who reluctantly agreed to a side view photo completely covered in white wrappings during her visit to the clinic. This is the infamous "burqa", allowing virtually no part of the woman to be seen. Dr. Pendleton described women crouching down to make themselves smaller whenever men were around.

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