ALYTUS Some happy stories take a long time to flower. Just ask Kestutis Ptakauskas. He was sent to fight in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979, where he served in a military unit whose primary duty was to complete a job known as "purging." Ptakauskas' tank unit fought on the frontline, engaging with Afghans in villages daring to show any resistance. The brutality in which Ptakauskas had to take part and the inevitable slaughter to which he exposed himself affected him greatly. "This deeply wounded both my body and soul. The memory of it has remained as a bleeding scar. I was on t...
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