The Dartmouth via U-Wire
August 14, 2003, Thursday
BYLINE: By Alison Schmauch

Hanover, N.H.

When Kathy Kelly first went to take toys and medicine to hospitalized Iraqi children, she met one little girl whose abdomen had literally been ripped open.

Another three-year-old boy, whose arms vaguely resembled dead tree branches, forlornly looked up at her and asked, “Will I always be this way?”

Kelly, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a founding member of the anti-war organization Voices in the Wilderness, spoke at length Wednesday night about this experience and others like it during her stay in strife-ridden Iraq, which lasted six months.