But it gives proof always to the fact that an onsite inspection. with a little "I was there" feeling on the scene. is worth any type of reading that you can possibly do. To visit with the wounded. to visit with one man who had received a serious wound in the back of his head. had been sent to the United States through the generosity of American doctors and hospitals. had survived and been treated to the tune of $400.000 and was then sent home to Afghanistan to die. this is one of the commanders. to see him slightly recovering. doing well. and not sorry at all that he had received this terrible wound to the back of his head that will not heal. in the fight for freedom for his country. it was a remarkable thing to talk to this man through a translator right there on the border. The children that we saw. the fighters that gathered into a large group at one of the refugee camps. over 600 people. to listen to the remarks of one of our senior colleagues on the majority side of the aisle. Representative CHARLES WILSON of Texas. to see the children being trained in a school. these are Afghan children being trained at the expense of Pakistan at one of the refugee camps. to meet with their fighters. to go up to the Khyber Pass and have a Thanksgiving dinner with the Khyber Rifles. to visit with the military people of Afghanistan. to look at all sorts of parts of a program that is top secret. that cannot be discussed on this House floor. thoughts that we cannot share with the great free American. European. and Japanese press. to see the success of an operation for freedom there and then to think about the pathetic shoestring that the young men and women who are fighting for freedom right here on the continent of North America must get by on. the limited supplies. how they would dearly love to have Stinger missiles. the Contra freedom fighters. when they see one of the Sovietmade Cubanflown HIND helicopters boring in on them in Central America. I for the life of me. with all the liberal disassembling and descriptions of why it is different in Afghanistan. different from Angola. different from Central America. let me try in a brief minute here to run a comparison.