'You forget you are in a war zone for a little bit': How one woman's art in Afghanistan started a chain reaction
By CAITLIN HUSON | Special To The Washington Post | Published: December 29, 2020 Seven months into her deployment in Afghanistan, Estella Juarez found out her nephew back home in Colorado had died. Juarez, a U.S. Army civilian employee, could not travel home because of coronavirus restrictions. Feeling homesick and isolated at Bagram Air Base, she began to paint flowers and mountain scenes on the light switches and electrical boxes inside her military home, which was actually a large converted shipping container. It was the beginning of the chain reaction transformation of drab military ho...
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