"When you see a burned-out Humvee with a half a uniform lying in it," he said, "it stays with you".
Do we realize that behind the statistics of high dropout rates, poor test scores, student tardiness and low percentages of students in uniform lie real people, children and families who lead difficult lives?
The speeding bus splatters memories, a schoolgirl in a wet summer uniform lies down in the bus and weeps.
More than 100 charred bodies, many of them children in school uniforms, lay scattered among burned palm and rubber trees today after a damaged gasoline pipeline exploded in southern Nigeria, killing villagers who had been scavenging fuel.
The result was piles of bodies wearing British uniforms lying in a ditch.
It published a series of photographs showing bloodstained bodies in olive drab uniforms lying on what seemed to be open sandy, desert ground.
In order to survive on the battlefield, troops, often acting against their officers' wishes, had to discard their brilliant uniforms, lie down, take cover, and disperse.
American soldiers saw signs of hasty exits everywhere: stripped-off uniforms lying next to foxholes, abandoned tanks and artillery strewn through farm fields and palm groves.
According to news reports, the girls were in their school uniforms, lying just a few feet from each other, with cuts and open wounds on their backs, necks, and arms, just out of view from the row of stout brick houses that border the field.
Missing face of AIDS Far away from the football field, meanwhile, the real reason behind that gift – and the reason why Barça wears the UNICEF logo on their team uniforms – lies in the missing face of AIDS, a child's face.
