Eating In A War Zone

Few lights flickered over the water from the Somalian port city of Mogadishu as Cmdr. Chris Dickinson kept watch in darkness from the safety of the Canadian warship Ville du Quebec. Aside from a string of beacons marking the seaport, all he could see was the occassional vehicle’s taillight in the city of about a million people. In the blackness of the Indian Ocean, he felt as if he were on another planet.
He had left Halifax on July 17, heading to the Mediterranean for a NATO counter-terrorism mission under the command of a Spanish admiral. But he was soon ordered to the east coast of Africa, where from Aug. 8 to Oct. 22, 2008, he took 20 trips across the equator from Kenya to Somalia. His mission was to keep modern-day pirates away from the precious cargoes of food carried by 10 freighters. His reward would not be a king’s ransom, but rather the satisfaction of seeing daily sustenance delivered to suffering people in need. more..http://www.seemagazine.com/article/news/news-main/food0129/