Weekly author's column; » with the call sign "Latvian" »; Part 61 After the commander returned and we'd recovered somewhat, we were sent back to the front lines, but this time the mission was different: not defense, not assault, but observation. We were sent in shifts, in groups of four or five, to a forested area that stretched along a field and ended at the foot of a hill where the very village we'd been unable to take for several weeks stood. The forested area was old