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Why Laura Bush Can't Forget a Shoeless Afghan Boy - and What She Wants the next President to Do About It

3/22/2016

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"Laura Bush remembers the 6th-grade report she wrote on Afghanistan – "in my best handwriting, of course" – because it was then the most exotic, faraway country she could imagine. And all these decades later, she remembers the horrible day in 2001 when Afghanistan became her life's passion. 

"I've been committed, really, to Afghanistan and Afghan women since September 11th," the former First Lady tells PEOPLE. "Starting that day, I felt a special relationship with Afghan women and do still today." 

Once those 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States introduced Americans to the brutality of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mrs. Bush used her White House platform to champion the Afghan women and girls violently persecuted, barred from schools and denied basic human rights by the Taliban. Their cause remained Mrs. Bush's passion project after she moved home to Texas in 2009 and, this week, culminates in the release of her new book, We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope."

Read article by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall from People Magazine.

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