But more often they saw it through its grisly aftermath: human bodies savaged by shells, bullets, shrapnel, trench foot, gangrene, mustard gas, typhoid or shell shock.
Mr. Ghani, who called the recruitment a "golden opportunity" to advance himself, described the aftermath: "Human flesh and blood flew in every direction in front of my eyes, and I fainted.
Its conclusion that in the moral quagmire of war and its aftermath, human trafficking and corruption are collateral damage is unutterably depressing".
In 1945, looking back from the culmination of another war, Hannah Arendt observed that confronting mass death had been the "fundamental problem" in human consciousness in the aftermath of the Great War.
The European Union provided assistance to ensure that the Poles, Czechs, Estonians and others could build a market economy, develop democracy and the rule of law, and provided protection for human rights in the aftermath of Soviet domination.
There was pressure on May to raise the thorny issue of human rights, in the aftermath of last year's failed coup; whatever was or was not discussed, there were not enough thorns to stop the United Kingdom from signing a deal, worth roughly a hundred and twenty five million dollars, to develop fighter jets for the Turkish Air Force.
While small, venue-based jazz and poetry festivals have been around since the 1970s and even earlier – the Edinburgh Festival was founded in 1947 to "provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit" in the aftermath of the second world war – the new festival has to offer far more than a few headline acts.
A1 So much aid is now piling up in warehouses and on tarmacs around the Indian Ocean that officials are trying to avert a second potential disaster that often strikes in the aftermath of human tragedies: a lack of coordination among those seeking to help.
Pathological aspects of human memory in the aftermath of trauma may be malleable using non-invasive, cognitive interventions.
In the aftermath of human-caused disasters like those in Kirkwood or Tucson, "We're in that shadowy place we don't know," Holyan said.
