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CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 43 3 Editorial 4 Quakers thanked for support 5 Students protest over arms dealers at recruitment fairs the Fox report 6-7 The fate of our veterans David Hencke 8 ‘I believe that the UK authorities could be in PTSD denial’ Elfyn Llwyd 9 When violence comes home Symon Hill 10 ‘We train them to kill but we expect them to be normal’ Interview with Dafydd Alun Jones 11 The forgotten army Interview with Tony White 12 Pride versus prejudice Marianne Landzettel 13 Forgiveness and sustainability Cyril Govier 14 The ministry of discomfort Harriet Hart 15 Things are getting worse: please send chocolate Jane Elms 16 q-eye: witness 17 Friends & Meetings

PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

A psychological and physical condition caused by frightening or distressing events. It occurs in up to thirty per cent of people who experience traumatic events.

NHS Choices website

Cover: Valley, Afghanistan 2002. Photo: Paul Seawright.

The Friend gratefully acknowledges the support Paul has given to this edition by his permission to reproduce the cover photograph from his exhibition ‘Hidden’.

Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London, in their longstanding series of war art commissions, ‘Hidden’ was a response to the war in Afghanistan in 2002. Photographs of minefields and battlesites acknowledge that almost everything in the conflict was hidden or invisible. Paul’s war photographs also appeared in the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: ‘The Sublime Image of Destruction’ and in the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Paul is professor of photography at the University of Ulster and a trustee of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation.

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the Friend, 22 October 2010