If any of you like to read about current war adventures around the world, I recommend reading the New York Times. They have a good one about American soldiers in Afganistan: Tues., Nov. 30, 2010. They also have a report about one of there reporters just wounded over there: Joao Silva, a photographer, at Checkpoint 16, AFGANISTAN. He is recovering at Walter Reed after stepping on a Russian plastic antipersonnel land mine. It was hooked up to a 35-pound plastic drum of fertilizer, but the detonation cord had been cut and the bigger bomb did not go off. Joao lost his legs in the explosion and suffered internal injuries.

Erno