Stripes
David McIlroy
Each image is a ribbon from a UN mission/tour.
"Seeing the elephant" is a term for the first experience in a war.
The missions and their HQ:
ONUSAL | El Salvador |
UNIFIL | Lebanon |
UNAVEM | Angola |
ONUMOZ | Mozambique |
UNPREDEP | Macedonia |
MINURSO | Western Sahara |
UNAMIR | Rwanda |
SV LB AO MZ MK EH RWwhich reads down the first letter as "SLAMMER", a recent virus.