This is what's left after a house has been hit by a US Air strike.

Susanna George is the Kabul Bureau Chief for the Post.

And recently, she visited Helmand Province in the southwest of Afghanistan.

There are chunks of concrete, bricks, broken glass, a few shreds of fabric.

Maybe they were curtains, clothing, it's hard to tell.

And so this was where one of the bombs was dropped right here.

Like so many in Helmand, Saeed Gol, who doesn't have a last name, suffered unimaginable loss

to the war.

As we walk through the rubble, he's pointing to where the missiles landed.

One dropped over here, another dropped over there.

It's been five years since US Air strikes left him with nothing.

The attacks destroyed his home, his business, and killed nine of his family members, including

both his parents and a one-year-old child.

So there's two bedrooms.

Like, switch out there?

The attack hit when his family was asleep.

Saeed Gol only survived because he happened to be out of town that night.

He says he doesn't know if they were killed instantly or if they suffocated under the rubble.

The strike hit just after 11 at night and his neighbors, fearing the blast to be followed

by a night raid, waited until dawn to dig out the bodies.

Now under Taliban rule, the strikes over Helmand have stopped.

But despite a year of peace, his life, like so many others, remains haunted by war.

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