Afghanistan in the late 60s.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afghanistan-1960s-photos/5846/ <== full set

An ugly reminder of what fundamentalism fears and destroys. These are pictures of another world that first communists and then Salafists thought needed to be wiped out.

A young American woman, shopping without fear




Women in skirts (knees!! gasp!!) with books (double gasp!!) Note that many of the women seem to be Afghanis




Those classes took place in the American International School at Kabul




Some men at tea time engaging in the sin of pleasant music





http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afghanistan-1960s-photos/5846/ <== lots more bittersweetness