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Deaf students inside the classroom of a special school for the hearing-impaired in Baghdad, Iraq (April 2004).
Deaf students inside the classroom of a special school for the hearing-impaired in Baghdad, Iraq (April 2004).

In April 2004, I traveled in a Civil Affairs convoy to a special school for the deaf in Baghdad, Iraq. With more than 200 students, the hallways and classrooms remained quiet.

The only noise that broke the silence were the conversations between the teachers and a small group of American soldiers.

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