By then, though, the picture of the U.S. soldiers swinging the Afghan girl had taken on a life of its own. While working on another NATO project at the National Defense University at Washington's Fort McNair, I discovered that the image had been worked into wrought iron as part of a pictorial history of the U.S. military adorning Lincoln Hall. The little girl was now the U.S. Army's answer to Sharbat Gula, whose famous haunted glance was captured on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985.
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