We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 17, 2009

Thu Sep. 17, 2009 3:00 AM PDT

U.S. Army Pfc. Nicholas Weeks plays an Afghan checkers-style game with Nas Nahs, an interpreter, in the Kohi Safi district, Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2009. Weeks is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's Company B, Special Troops Battalion. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Teddy Wade.)

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