In a message dated 9/18/01 11:32:52 PM, jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET writes:

<< Cool Stuff. Good web page about Afganistan. I can remember as a kid reading
about the battles in the Kyber Pass and thing how brave and romatic and
wonderful it all was .......food for a kids imagination, but then growing up
brings understanding of  the reality. >>

Now, just imagine it with a musical underscore of good ol' American rock n'
roll.  I can see it all: those ballcap-bedecked, soft suburban bodies lined
up in front of the recruitment office at the mall jockeying to be first on
queue; sons of physicians dropping out of premed programs all over the
country so that they can become grunts (medicine is no fun anymore anyway,
ask any MD, but don't tell their sons); and our daughters in the Khyber pass
fighting side by side with our boys just like the Israeli women would do to
protect their own freedom.  My vision is still rather ethereal, only an
effluvium rising from a patriotic quagmire, but gaining substance daily.
Tomorrow, I go to the optometrist.  I want him to fit me with a pair of those
eyeglasses which are made in Viet Nam; I think those might bring everything
into focus.

Rich