War Is Personal

Eugene Richards

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TORONTO, CANADA, 2008. “My life as a soldier,” Kimberly says, “was falling apart. It gets to the point where you want to injure yourself. And then there was this time when I seriously thought I was going to kill a guy. He kept scooting closer to me and putting his hand on my thigh. I knew at that moment that I shouldn’t be there anymore.”

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