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Assignment Afghanistan: Go Down Nightmare

They knew there would be bombs buried in the dirt. They knew their metal detectors probably wouldn’t detect the bombs’ wooden pressure plates. They knew that after the bombs they would be ambushed and the air would zing with high-velocity metal. The Canadians knew they were advancing to detonation, that some of them were going down, that it was unlikely they’d all make it back to base. They knew there would be mayhem and nightmare explosions and the dirty fear of dying. They went anyway. They walked across the field and into the war, and everything that they knew, happened.

January 1, 2011, by Adam Day

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MISCELLANEOUS
FEATHERS ON THE BRAIN– Brian Watkins, RCL representative to RCEL, “Feathers on the Brain,” a memoir of his life in Wales and as a British diplomat, available at Amazon.com or any good book shop, ISBN 978-0-9866421-5-9, $10.23. The author will be present at the Halifax Convention. Contribution from every book sold will be donated to The RCL’s Poppy Fund.

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