A Rubber Ducky Takes Flight(s) – Lens Blog

That ducky has been present at many historical moments. It was with me when I witnessed women voting for the first time in Afghanistan. It was once a few feet away from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at his palace in Kabul. It was with me when I crazily walked into northern Iraq from Turkey — at night, in monsoonlike rain — just before the bombing started. The ducky visited Saddam Hussein’s palace in Tikrit before the Marines arrived.

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