Hoosier Honor Flight 2010

Here is Mr. Atwood. He had a "cardiac incident" at Reagan National upon arrival so we got to know each other in the back of the ambulance and at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He is an almost 92 year old WWII Bronze Star hero, served in Italy --infantry combat division. He is one amazing guy! He is smiling here with the ER doctor - Dr Martin--who was delightful (even when he left ER AMA)!

The most amazing thing happened when we took at taxi back to the Airport from ER mid-afternoon- the GM of Continental Airlines-DCA put us in her BMW and personally drove Mr. Atwood to see the WWII Memorial before we had to fly home.

His words (with tears): "I will never, ever forget this day."

Greg was able to fly with us as a newsreporter for WTIU, along with his camera guy, and is doing a 2-part story on the flight. You can watch an initial clip that aired
last night with a YouTube- search "WTIU NewsBreak, April 29, 2010.
In spite of some of the difficulty of the day, it was an amazing experience!

Eric has an address finally!

LCpl Williams, Eric 3F6
MCSFCO, Guantanamo Bay
PSC 1005 Box 32
FPO AE 09593

For the next 2 weeks, he will be "in the field".

Gitmo

Cruising around Gitmo

Hello hello hello!

We finally made it to the weekend here and are off for a couple of days before we do some training and then go back to work for two weeks. Our first week of guarding the fenceline here had it's rough spots, but it was "a learning experience" as we were told to look at it....Anyways, it's behind us now and we can look forward to smoother waters ahead.

My job is pretty much to have someone drive me around in a humvee and make sure the sentries in the towers are awake and don't have to pee in their canteens. I was on the graveyard shift this first week so I'd sleep about 12 noon to 7 pm then get up and work until about 9 in the morning. It was rough getting used to the nocturnal life and I'm glad that I might actually get to sleep during dark hours next time we're on. But anyways, the base is still safe so I guess we did alright in the end.

Everyone was going a little crazy by the end of the week due to standing alone for around 8 hrs in their tower and watching every little move the Cubans make, so this weekend should be a relief. Tomorrow I'm planning on going diving in the morning, hopefully spearing me a decent fish while I'm down there, and then relaxing on the beach until dinner time. We'll see how it all goes though. I hope all is well back in the motherland!!

-Eric

Happy Anniversary, Angela and Bret

Henry, Ava & Buddy....Meet Cousin Chloe

Visiting Bret and Angela today (outside, of course!)

Throop Elementary performs The Mikado

The music director with a few select fans.
Bows from the cast

Bows to the Audience

And, here is why....

The Performers were magnificent

The Sets wonderful... A great performance!!