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The War Toys project uses photos and art therapy to help kids who lived through war

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Brian McCarty uses toys as part of art therapy to help children who have been traumatized by war. The kids meet with a trained art therapist who helps them draw and talk about their experiences.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

Back in 1996, photographer Brian McCarty visited war-torn Croatia, and it made him think of an earlier war.

BRIAN MCCARTY: I had thought about conversations with my father about Vietnam and his experiences. And he was extremely reluctant to share anything really in-depth or personal.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Extremely reluctant, unless the two were playing with toy soldiers. So McCarty's a kid. He's got these little plastic figures. He's playing with them, and his dad is there. And his dad suddenly starts talking about McCarty's grandfather, who served in World War II. Memories of that childhood experience gave McCarty an idea.

MCCARTY: I found letters that my father wrote home to my mom from Vietnam and decided² to recreate those moments with a vintage 1960s, you know, off-the-shelf G.I. Joe figure.

MART?NEZ: McCarty made photos of the scenes he created. That led to another idea.

MCCARTY: I thought that it'd be amazing to encourage more generational conversations to stop cycles of violence.

INSKEEP: In 2011, he started a project called War Toys, using his photographs and art therapy to help kids who had lived through war.

MCCARTY: I learned about art therapy and play therapy and this idea of using War Toys as a way to bridge that gap between people who have experienced war and haven't experienced war.

INSKEEP: The kids meet with a trained art therapist who helps them draw and talk about their experiences of war.

MART?NEZ: McCarty then takes the children's drawings, travels to the places where the events happened, recreates those traumatic war images using toys and makes photos of them.

MCCARTY: I think it's so important to focus on the stories of children from war because people look past the rhetoric³ and see those moments. That really is the takeaway, that we are all the same.

MART?NEZ: War Toys has worked with children from countries like Syria, Iraq and Israel. And McCarty is now working with children affected⁴ by the war in Ukraine.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。