I learned early on that during the war the garage, which stood about 30 yards from our house, had served as a "dead house," a place where the bodies of Union soldiers were stored before burial.
"Doesn't Hiawatha look lovely?" It is tempting to think of the scene inside the hayshed as a bizarre metaphor for the Troubles: the warriors, the roughnecks and the soldiers are stored safely away, their guns holstered and their eyes seeing nothing, while outside, the world moves on.
For the city's 3.4 million residents, the possibility of the entire city running dry is so beyond their control that most bat the thought away and soldier on, storing water in jerry cans when taps flow.
The smell of war begins to emanate from people's skin, although outside the store soldiers from the previous conflict — men and women, still in their camouflage and heavy boots — drink Fanta and listen to soccer on the portable radio.
"Who knows what is really going on when they get together to talk?" said a chain-smoking shopkeeper who was discussing matters with a fellow businessman on Tongduchon's main strip, where American soldiers peered into store windows comparing prices.
A1 American soldiers found large stores of weapons during several raids in northern Iraq.
As the proposal stands now, a company's worth of equipment — enough for about 150 soldiers — would be stored in each of the three Baltic nations: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
"We also think we've identified a blockhouse or casa fuerte inside the fortifications, and this is where the soldiers would have stored their supplies — ammunition, tools, food, etc.," Beck wrote in an email.
During the operation, three soldiers entered a grocery store, and confronted a target who had been positively identified by Hart moments earlier.
Just before the vote, with television cameras rolling, he sent soldiers into an appliance store accused of price gouging and ordered huge markdowns on televisions and microwaves.
