The Taliban Don't Wave by Robert Semrau

Author:Robert Semrau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

The ANA, as expected, took the next day off for admin issues, so just for fun, I went down to the interpreters' building and taught them how to play the kid's card game Uno. The OMLT weren't the only soldiers with their own interpreters. The battle group had around five or six working just for them. I took an Uno deck with me wherever I went in the world, and the interpreters loved it because it helped them practise their English. They were good guys, and happy to be working with Canadians, but they all lived under a terrible shadow of death, and worse, hideous torture, if the Taliban ever discovered they worked for the infidels. But they came to work every single day, always smiling and cheerful. Of course the pay was very good and they couldn't make that kind of money working anywhere else, but there was more to it than just money.

Every single interpreter that I met believed with all of his heart that we were there to help, and they all wanted to help us in any way possible as we tried to improve their country's security. Sadly, it often seemed to me that the terps believed in us more than we believed in ourselves.

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