Peter van Agtmael's Journey Through War

Strays
At Patrol Base California, in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan, a number of stray dogs hang about, "waiting for food and company," van Agtmael writes. "Usually the soldiers welcomed them. But I was told that a few weeks earlier, when one of the dogs urinated on a soldier's cot, he and his buddies shot the dog to pieces."

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