It was only a 10-week assignment for Lois Raimondo ’81, but the experience transformed this award-winning Washington Post photojournalist for a lifetime. Now, through her camera lens and her own words, Raimondo shares her thoughts on Afghanistan after 9/11 — the people, the culture and the connections that changed her forever.

I sat in a circle with 35 sixth-graders at North Andover Middle School in Massachusetts, seeing them - each one - for the first time face-to-face after months of sporadic long-distance communication between their homeroom class in America and my satellite phone calling out from Afghanistan. I was now two weeks back from 10 weeks in the field, my head and heart still roaming the hills of North Afghanistan, and America felt foreign.

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