One of the images that made the plight of the Mid-East refugees real to many Americans for the first time was the young girl with the green eyes on the cover National Geographic back in 1985. Phoyographer Steve McCurry saw her in a camp for displaced people in Peshawar,

I still remember how our Social Studies in high school drilled into our minds how the signers of the Declaration of Independence were risking their lives signing that document. That they were, yet they were not going to allow themselves to be bullied to by any music celebrity, actor, anyone