I received this as a private e-mail from Tom Anthony. I thought it was (and is) a really special honor that our Classmates paid to their old unit. With Tom's permission, I'm sharing it with the Class.
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Last week, Gary Minor from Austin, Bob Winter from Lagrange and I drove up to Fort Hood from Austin.
Gary and Bob and I were castlemates in Germany 1964-66. Together we rented the Mainstockhein Castle, at one time the summer palace of the Bishop of Wurzburg, North of Kitzingen. We each had a suite and shared the kitchen. Our Porsches and Corvettes were parked out side.
At Fort Hood we were met there by our old commander, COL Farrar, who drove in from Missouri; he is 87 now.
Informally and personally we had collected some cash to use for the benefit of the troops of the 21st Artillery, the unit we all served with in Germany. The 21st is 3rd Corps Artillery now assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. They are deploying back to Iraq in June, some of the troops for the fourth time.
We paid for a plaque to honor those who were killed in Iraq.
We bought them a fussball machine to use in barracks.
We were very surprised to find the entire unit in battle gear all formed up to receive us for the unveiling of the plaque. They took it very seriously, as did we. I think what impressed the troops the most is that somebody cared about them personally, with no political agenda, and just did this personally, without any organization involved. Just us old guys to them, a band of brothers across generations and almost 50 years.
See the photos attached.
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