This short story is based on a ancient oral story past down for many generations. It describes the origin of the little brown song birds that migrate up to the arctic for the warmer months. They are quite plain these birds, though their origins are not.
In apparent retaliation over the burning of religious books at a disposal site at Bagram base, two American soldiers were shot and killed and four others were wounded when an Afghan soldier turned his weapon on them and opened fire today.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Mark Begich and Mayor Luke Hopkins meet with the Fairbanks community to discuss the future of Eielson Air Force Base.
Ashton Carter, the man who was appointed as Deputy Secretary of Defense in October makes his first trip to Afghanistan.