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Members of the 36-43rd Company of the New Hampshire National Guard are back home.

This week, they're taking part in a mandatory re-integration program to help ease them back into civilian life after being stationed in Baghdad for about a year.

But while those soldiers may be out of harms way, New Hampshire has others deployed in the middle east.

Some of them are in Afghanistan training their counterparts in the Afghan National Army, the ANA.

Staff Sgt Tim Burns, from Nashua, was with the 210th Engineers of the New Hampshire National Guard, headquartered in Peterborough.

Currently he's embedded as a mentor at Camp Mike Spann in Northern Afghanistan,

He's training Afghan soldiers to improve the local infrastructure.

But before you hear about Burns' job there, we need to translate a few terms he uses.

He talks about Terps.....those are interpreters.

And he mentions the fob ....that's a forward operating base.

He spoke with NHPR Correspondent Douglas Grindle.

It's often the job of editorial cartoonists to shock their readers. Whether their preaching to the choir or trying to change minds, the images on the editorial page can sometimes make you wince. So, it may be hard to imagine the cartoons that were so offensive they didn't make the cut. Luckily, though, we don't have to imagine it: editor David Wallis has collected them in a book called "Killed: Casualties from the War on Free Expression". We'll talk with David about his book and about our culture's stomach for dissent in the post-9/11 world.

***This show originally aired April 20th, 2007***