In all his travels around Fabulous Bagram, Uncle Si begins to come across interesting sites, sounds, people and things. Like this bumper sticker, stuck to the window of a bus stop the Uniforms and Non-uniforms use to get around Fabulous Bagram, which Si knows from experience is a huge place, especially for a man of his stature. Judging by the mountains Si can see all around him, Afghanistan really does seem like the perfect place to do a little skiing, even though Uncle Si has never been skiing and doesn't even really know what that entails. As long as it's something he can do with his glass of tea and plastic legs, he figures he's up for giving it a try.
Not far from the bus stop with the ski sticker, Si stumbles by pure luck into the PX. This is his first time in a PX, but he already knows all about the store because he'd heard the Uniforms talk daily about going there for soap or candy or pillows or Palpitation H (which must be some kind of heart medicine, Si thinks). While wandering the aisles, he comes across a calendar with a photo of a fellow with a long beard and a camo hat, and Uncle Si thinks there's something strangely familiar about the old guy, but can't quite put his finger on what it is.
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