Seven-year-old
Lawrence Odle and his nine-year-old sister, Bettina, stand in front of their
home in Lashkar Gah in 1956.
Courtesy of Bettina Nordby
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the Washington Post and author of Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. For more information about the book, go to www.rajivc.com