Thanks for Sowing the Seeds

Arthur Chrenkoff checks in with a roundup of the past month's good news from Afghanistan.

"Before my arrival in Virginia in August of last year, I had never slept in my own bedroom, attended school with boys, or gone out in public without covering my hair. I never thought I'd come to the USA. The odds were against me: Most people from Afghanistan have never traveled outside its borders," writes Ghizal Miri, a 15-year old Afghan girl who is one of the 40 high school students spending a year in the U.S. under a scholarship program. "Thanks, America, for sowing seeds of freedom in my Afghanistan."