I'm pretty familiar with corn. Growing up, we had a corn field right behind our house, I used to run through the corn fields at our family farm (to some, aka CTS), and I earned my undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL - where I also had a corn field right behind my town house and enjoyed the city's yearly Corn Fest.
So I was surprised to encounter corn here in Afghanistan. I still don't know who planted it, but while on the base which houses the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters, I snapped this picture and, to the shagrin of my colleagues, waxed nostaligic all day about Corn Boils and games of "kick-the-can" by the corn fields.
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