Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times Highlight

Yet confronting evil tends to be seen differently when it is being committed in our name—when the perpetrators are not Germans or Rwandans but Americans carrying out abuses at places such as the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a story that came to light after a reservist named Joseph Darby handed a CD full of incriminating photos to the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division in 2004, one year before President Bush honored Paul Rusesabagina. Darby’s reward was to be called a traitor and to receive a string of death threats that prompted him to move out of his hometown.