Safely out of the latrine without being seen, Uncle Si is back on his journey around Fabulous Bagram, hoping to avoid any other latrines he might come across. Just in front of a place with a sign hanging above the door that says "USO," he finds a little garden area with flowers and a painted wooden structure. With the sunlight shining through Si thinks this could very well be one of the prettiest places on Fabulous Bagram. He has no idea where exactly he is on Fabulous Bagram, but he realizes while standing awhile in that garden, that everywhere he's been he can hear airplanes taking off and landing.
Not far from the USO, Si runs across more concrete wall paintings, the difference between these and the others he's seen so far is that these paintings are huge and cover three or four sections of T-wall and seem like they are a hundred feet tall, at least.
Uncle Si stands admiring the second painting of a Uniform for a few minutes, and then heads away from the paintings and the USO, having made two quick decisions: First, he needs to get up on a roof, like he did in Kandahar, to see what else he's missed from the ground. And second, with the sun getting lower in the sky, he knows darkness is coming pretty soon and he will need to find a place to spend the night.
So he finds the tallest building he can find and starts up the stairs in hopes of finding his way onto a roof. With every stair as tall as Uncle Si, by the time he gets all the way to the top he is tired, for sure, but excited about the possibilities of what he might see.
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