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Psst, Wanna Buy a Bayonet? Or a Burqa? On Dusty Afghan Base, American Soldiers Find a Marketplace
1 April 2002
Associated Press
For U.S. soldiers stationed at this dusty Afghan base, the absence of those daily consumer pleasures TV, a cold beer, an excursion to the mall is glaring. On the other hand, how often is the kid bicycling down the street back home selling Russian bayonets and burqas?
For the discerning GI souvenir hounds, the Vietnam War had its Ao-Dai, or traditional Vietnamese dresses, and World War II its Lugar pistols and Nazi memorabilia.
For soldiers here at this former Soviet... (GunPolicy.org)