INSTAPUNDIT’S AFGHANISTAN CORRESPONDENT, Major Robert Macaraeg, sends these photos and reports:

Here are some images and a summary of a conversation from Afghanistan.

I was talking with one of interpreters yesterday and we were talking about the up coming parliamentary election. He stated that he would be voting and everybody he knew would do so too. When asked about the Taliban terror campaign to disrupt the election, he scoffed at them stating that the Afghan and American armies are disrupting the Taliban’s plans and the Afghan people will vote despite the Taliban’s efforts. I am thinking that the national participation in this election will have a higher participation level than some European or American elections. When I asked him why he and others will vote, he just pointed to the children hanging around interjecting with their views of the election.

A fitting 9/11 memorial of its own.