Shanafiya, Iraq, August 2003: Boys stare through the broken windows of a local school in the village of Shanafiya in southern Iraq. Civil affairs personnel are improving and resupplying schools across Iraq that have been devastated by war and neglect prior to the war.

Read the article on the work the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion was doing in Shanafiya here.

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