An older woman in striped head scarf and conical hat clutches her walking stick. Photograph is mounted with a label that describes her: "Tired from a morning's poking through destroyed family hootch looking for surviving family members and possessions after a night raid against suspected Viet Cong, a gaunt, weathered, trembling, and angry grandmother rests briefly on her bamboo walking stick. Her broken body rooted to the soil like some splinteres tree caught in the wrath of war, her granite-like silence tells the story of fear and hate at my presence and her loss."
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