from the grand opening of the dams to the narrowest canals spreading across the desert. not many americans still remember the old days in helmand, but there are a very few. we went to afghanistan in, er... my daughter was about a year old. i went ahead of you because we didn't have any house for the family for the first six months, and we were working on the new kandahar international airport. mm—hm. and then they came over about six months later. we lived in this little bungalow... it was a duplex. was it a duplex? yes, and it had one bathroom, a living room and a long kitchen with a table at the end with two chairs. yeah, quite small, yeah. that was the dining room! well, it had been built on a huge compound that the government of afghanistan had made available to mk quite a few years earlier when mk went in in 19116 and �*7 to start the helmand valley project. the way these guys are so self—sufficient and so... if you're working here