Afghan children

 The  shootings  and  explosions  had  lasted  less  than  an  hour,  but  they  had  frightened  us  badly,  because  none  of  us  had  ever  heard  gunshots  in  the  streets.  They  were  foreign  sounds  to  us  then.

 The  generation  of  Afghan  children  whose  ears  would  know  nothing  but  the  sounds  of  bombs  and  gunfire  was  not  yet  born.