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Monday, August 9, 2010

Widow: Slain dr. the passion for helping the Afghans ran deep

Tom Little (right) died right where he would like to be, depending on his wife, Libby Little. STORY HIGHLIGHTSHer husband worked avoidable blindness in AfghanistanOptometrist Tom Little and nine others killed by armed men in a remote area the responsibility for the attack (CNN) claimed – danger to their life to help Afghans at a disadvantage in the end, it was almost a standard for Tom and Libby Little. "We brought us three daughters to what, sometimes just hell was," said Libby Little. "Hundred missiles per day was a good day." Family members to avoid lived bombing underground, she said. She continued to have a love for the people and a passion for eye care for the poor. But force on Thursday. Tom Little, a New York optometrist, was one of the 10 people were killed by armed men in Badakhshan, a race of the North-Eastern region of the country. Mostly foreign members of a medical team and one by one on a remote road. Their bodies were transferred to Kabul early Sunday, authorities said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Little "he died is right when he loved his--and did that eye care in remote areas," said from her home in New York. "Our daughters miss him terribly. But I think their sense, too, that is a real passion that he had. " It was the remote areas of Afghanistan, Little, stressing the need for services of her husband was often largest.

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