Let Us Pray...

... for Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl and the town of Hailey — Idaho town prays for return of captured US soldier. You have to like a guy described as "an 'adventurous' soul who was educated at home, danced ballet and took part in a sport fencing club." (And should the ballet cause you to be suspicious, as I admit I was, the article mentions "his hope to marry his girlfriend.")

"I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America," he said, about whom we learn: "The family, described by neighbors as deeply private, lives six miles west of Hailey on a remote gravel county road. The humble home has a metal roof and several outbuildings, and vehicles parked in front. The family has chained and locked the front gate, and a small cardboard sign says: 'No visitors.'"

UPDATE: More on the soldier's home town — Soldier's Idaho town kept mum on Taliban capture. We learn that "a small circle of people in this central Idaho town found out it was one of their own but kept it quiet" because "the family urged them not to talk about the kidnapping out of fear that publicity would compromise his safety" and that a "neighbor just down the road ordered reporters off his property, threatening violence."