When a hockey rink gets more ink than a failed state

Reporters wrote reams on a hockey rink being repatriated from a Canadian base in Afghanistan, but there should be more attention on what’s become of the country since our soldiers left.
Canada's ambassador to Afghanistan, Ken Neufeld, plays one final game of ball hockey at the Canadian rink at the Kandahar Airfield on Dec. 27.
OTTAWA—On Dec. 27, about a dozen Canadian Embassy staff, including Ambassador Kenneth Neufeld, were brought from Kabul to Kandahar to play a ball hockey game. This was the final game played at the Kandahar Airfield ball hockey rink before the U.S. army engineers began dismantling the boards and b...

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