This was the village headman surrounded by the village children. As we visited, the headman told up of the story of his people coming to Afghanistan in the 1930s to escape the Soviet collectivization of his homeland. He talked of traveling by night to avoid the Soviet airplanes that were strafing and killing the people and animal herds. The Blair Brainard Peace Corps in Afghanistan Photographic Collection captures the photographers experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, primarily in the city of Herat, 1965-1968.