Peter King, who writes for Sports Illustrated, is on a USO tour of Afganistan - or, rather, he's covering the tour of NFL players there. SI's web site today has a kind of journal of King's impressions of being there. Here is what he says when he arrives and sees his sleeping quarters:"We check into our barracks at Bagram Air Base, a major staging area for allied forces in Afghanistan. We're in a classic, old seven-bunk bedroom that reminds me of Frost Valley in the New York Catskills on Indian Princess weekends with my daughters. Same musty smell."
Ah, that fantastic smell of our cabins. It hits his nose all the way around the world. Unforgettable sense.
