Tag Archive for: Afghanistan

Disconnected

The food’s pretty good–for a deployment Army Chow Hall. Then again, it might just be a trick of the mind, because it’s been so long since we’ve had anything decent to eat. I smelled the onions sizzling on the large metal grill, that ubiquitous monstrosity found in any Dining Facility in Afghanistan. Read more

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Friends

“Missus! Missus! Chocolate!” Mohammad was a little old to be one of the boys running up and down the side of the road, asking the passing American Soldiers for chocolate, but there he was anyway, stealing pens that were on their sleeves, and running off to the little huts in the far off town as the women in burkas and the little girls in shawls walked off, “Mister, mister! Chocolate!” Read more

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