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| Wisconsin military base turns into a small city as Afghans await resettlement |
| 2021-10-08 |
| [NPR] Young Afghans who recently fled their homeland joined with American soldiers to play a soccer game on a sunny fall day at the sprawling Fort McCoy military base in Wisconsin. The Afghan team had both boys and several girls — including a goalie who wore a black hijab and blue jeans. They are among 13,000 Afghan refugees who escaped the Taliban forces in August now find themselves at this Army base, awaiting resettlement in communities across the nation. Nearby, Afghan women hang laundry on chain link fences. Kids play frisbee or scoot by on bikes. Girls walk past hand in hand. Many grown women look out their window in their barracks. Brig. Gen. Christopher Norrie heads the task force called Operation Allies Welcome. For Norrie and others, these Afghans are not refugees. "We have guests here who have served and sacrificed with us, who helped us, many here previously wounded in combat — all hopeful for a better future," Norrie says. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Nearby, Afghan women hang laundry on chain link fences. Kids play frisbee or scoot by on bikes. Girls walk past hand in hand. Many grown women look out their window in their barracks. Teach 'em to moonshine and put their cars up on cinder blocks, we can turn them into hillbillies in a generation. I mean, they already got the tribal hill people thing down, they just need to learn the local idiom. Snark aside, it will be interesting to see how this experiment in cultural transplantation works out. Since humans are involved, the results will be mixed. Probably the usual 80/20 with the weight on the bad side. My money is still on Boulder for the measles outbreak. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-10-08 17:57 |
| #4 Fuck Chris Norrie clap,clap,clap-clap-clap |
| Posted by: Ebbuling Thase3480 2021-10-08 17:29 |
| #3 How about they "hope for a better future" in an Muslim country? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-10-08 14:10 |
| #2 :-) "a goalie in hijab & jeans!" :-) How vibrant! A Gorgeous Mosaic! |
| Posted by: Jinter Panda1230 2021-10-08 13:04 |
| #1 Ah, The official NPR smiley face stamp. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-08 12:24 |