“This statement kept playing over and again in my mind,
especially when I got the most colourful welcome from my family, barely a
week away on this journey.Many soldiers, play this long overdue welcome
party in their heads daily, and the sad thing is that for some, it may
never happen.
I
had long conversations with soldiers about how they got wounded in
battle.They told me how grateful they were to be alive, some of their
colleagues weren’t as lucky. I also got to speak with medical personnel,
on the uniqueness of their work in a war against terror. I’ll share all
their stories here and start by introducing Soldier X, who I never met,
but made a photograph of his Xray .An anti aircraft bullet, big and
strong enough to tear through the titanium body of an airplane, was
lodged in his throat, and for some reason, it didn’t blow his head off,
this soldier lived through his surgery and got to take the removed
bullet home as a reminder. This is a wicked wicked war!Why would anyone
chose weapons made to attack war planes and use it on a fellow human …
At close range ..Even in war there should be rules. Lieutenant Ologodo
told me something really important, that if you don’t believe in God,
working here will make a convert out of you, the frequency of witnessing
the darkest of evil deeds, along side what can only be miraculous, will
open your heart somehow.This is such a brutally wicked war !#tybellophotography #portrait#unknown soldier #Nigerianarmy #bokoharam #woundedsoldier # borno #war#waronterror@.
