Note: All over the world, the U.S. state department is undertaking these types of operations on behalf of citizens.  It's too bad that our major television networks do not more reasonably cover worldwide events affecting our country.  -dh Excerpts from yesterday's State Department Email: Location: Ecuador (country-wide).  Today, four more U.S. State Department-sponsored flights departed Ecuador, two each from Guayaquil and Quito, returning 403 Americans home.  To date, a total of six U.S. State Department-sponsored flights have taken 631 Americans home.  Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador has worked closely with commercial [...]