"As soon as i turned he flung a stone, which hit me in the back of the head."
"This was the first time in eighteen months of walking anyone had thrown a stone at me and it was only my second Hazara Village." (page 192)
(picture us from LIFE MAGAZINE, and thus won't copy and past or save, so I added the Link to it above.) and once you click on KAITLIN CONGO #7/13 at the top, it will directly bring you to the picture.
These two sentences were a pinacle moment on Stewarts journey. Despite everything he had been through in the past eighteen months of him traveling by foot across Afghanistan through all these different villages he had never been before, encountering all these new people...everything thinking he is some sort of spy or working undercover for some government he had never been abused nor had anyone tried to physically harm him. And it wasn't until he was in this Hazara Village that these group of boys cast stones at Stewart when he wasn't paying attention, and for what reason? We don't know. This picture represents the gash Stewart had to endure and the perplex look on the man's face in the picture is one i would imagine Stewart would have had as well with the blood streaming down his face with disbelief.
U.S. Navy. Protestors Invade US Nval Base in Puerto Rico. Getty Images. LIFE. 2001
http://www.life.com/image1310812
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