Dispatches: Mr. A checks in from Congo

Natacha and I just got off the phone with her father, Monsieur Agbenou - Hubert to his friends - and WOW is his English getting better! I’d better start back with the Rosetta Stone French.

Mr. A  left Benin to go down to Brazzaville, Congo. He’s helping to campaign for the current president, Denis Sassou Nguesso who is running for re-election. The election takes place this month.

Don’t get the two Congo’s confused

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Simple and stirring: Day is Done

Marine Corps Band Trumpeter plays Taps at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Nov 7, 2007, at the completion of the day’s reading of the names of the dead.

It doesn’t get much more moving than this bit of music.

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