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Of Sandstorms and Guarded Hope in Baghdad

Baghdad shoe store
Austin Bay

"The Iraqi proprietor insisted I take a photograph of the shoes in his display window."

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August 23, 2004

On a hot, dusty summer day in Baghdad, commentator and Army reservist Austin Bay is on foot patrol when he comes across a tiny shoe store. The photo the owner asks him to take reflects life, and hope, on the streets of the city.

 
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