22 September 2006

More on Landstuhl

Some remarkable events occurred while we were at Landstuhl, though it's such a big hospital, we were completely oblivious to them at the time.

In the maternity ward, the staff used the wonderful tools of the Internet to connect Mother and newborn daughter with the father serving in Kuwait. You can read the story here.

Also, the men of Easy Company, popularlized as the "Band of Brothers" in the HBO miniseries, are touring some sites in Germany. On the 21st, they were in Landstuhl. I so wish we would have had time and the opportunity to meet these trueheroes... And what honorable men they are to take their time to visit our Soldiers today. I visited their website and noticed that they'd even posted a small tribute to our Illesheim pilots who died in the recent training accident.

These men are well and true heroes of our time. May we one day live to uphold their virtues and may we never need men like these again.

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