Hey everyone, it's from Team Year.

We've been thinking a lot recently about what's happening in Afghanistan, with the American

troops rapidly withdrawing and August 31st set as the official end to the military mission.

This comes 20 years after the war started in 2001.

We'll be wrestling with the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for a long

time.

This war did change the way America fights wars, and that change started with the most

unlikely person, a woman from California who went to Kabul on her own, 20 years ago, to

protest the war she would ultimately end up shaping.

Our friends at MPR's Rough Translation podcast bring us this episode as part of their series

about the cultural divide between civilians and the military after two decades of war.

We're actually working on our own two-part series on Afghanistan right now, which will

drop in the fall.

But for now, here's an incredible story from Rough Translation.

Support for this podcast and the following message come from K-Bucksbomb in support of the

David Gilkey and Zabiyula Tamanah Memorial Fund, established to strengthen MPR's commitment

to training and protecting journalists in high-risk environments.

We're listening to Rough Translation from MPR, and our special series Homefront with reporter

Quill Lawrence, all about the civilian military divide.

There's this question that I've been thinking about since we started this particular episode.

Who belongs in a war zone?

We were sitting in the lobby and it was such a scene.

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