www.delawareonline.com � The News Journal � NCCo official lends Afghan women a hand: "Farley, general manager of the New Castle County Department of Community Services, was in Afghanistan to help train 23 women who will eventually take a leading role in establishing 50 women's resource centers there. The centers will offer health care, literacy training and other services that were off-limits to women during the Taliban's reign.

Under Taliban rule, women were barred from working outside their homes, education was forbidden and women were punished for showing their faces. Farley came home with an appreciation for the audacity of Afghan women, including one who flouted Taliban convention to secretly educate 100 kids in her home and others who established underground networks to provide health care, schooling and social services.

'It was really touching,' she said, 'a very genuine and almost raw experience to see the adversity Afghan women have confronted.'"

It is the hundreds of stories like this that will slowly...very slowly...bring Afghanistan and Iraq to a better place. It is people like this, doing a little bit every day, that will make the difference. The terrorists get the front pages while the real heroes slog through every day.