QST QST QST DE YI9/K4IT YI9/K4IT YI9/K4IT x IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS, MY NAME IS MONK bt I WAS AN EMBEDDED REPORTER WITH THE US FORCES IN KURDISTAN bt THERE ARE ONLY A FEW OF US LEFT NOW bt BETWEEN THE HEAT, THE DISEASE AND THE FIGHTING IT HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE JUST TO SURVIVE THESE LAST FEW MONTHS bt I FOUND THIS RADIO IN A CAVE ON OUR LAST PATROL bt IT IS STILL FUNCTIONAL DESPITE EVERYTHING AND I AM TRANSMITTING IN THE FAINT HOPE THAT SOMEONE ELSE OUT THERE CAN HEAR US bt WE HEARD THE PRESIDENT ON THE RADIO LAST NIGHT bt DESPITE HIS WORDS WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN ON OUR OWN FOR THE LAST FIVE MONTHS bt BUT EVEN HERE THERE ARE PEOPLE WORKING TO SURVIVE AND WORKING TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES FROM THE RUBBLE AND THE RUIN bt WE WILL LISTEN FOR FIVE MINUTES AT THE START OF EACH HOUR bt PLEASE IF YOU HEAR THIS MESSAGE LET US KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE DESPITE THE DISTANCE bt HERE IN THE RUINS THERE IS HOPE bt I PRAY TO GOD THIS IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE left bt DE YI9/K4IT YI9/K4IT YI9/K4IT AR