If you get a chance to exchange email with Bill C. tell him our friend Theresia Heyden is still alive and kicking at 91. She worked for the Red Cross in 1975 at the refugee camp at San Onofre. This lady was a nurse in the 16th Panzer Division in WWII outside Stalingrad. She was a prisoner inside Russia until she escaped in 1949. She's worked with Marines in Afghanistan with the World Health Org. and saved a lot of lives by informing Marines of Taliban activities. She ran a camp for displaced women in Anbar province (as I recall). The Taliban would come there and speak Turkish (which Theresia spoke--unknown to them). The women didn't speak Turkish. As she tells it the Taliban crushed her toes trying to find a spy she was hiding at the camp. When she tells the story she chuckles, "I didn't hide a spy, I was the spy." But this is only a small part of her story. Bill will know her. I'm sure he'll be interested in knowing she's alive and well.

Through her I've gotten to know a couple of interesting people. Kurt Shulz and Jorg Cizpionka. Kurt flew ME 109s and Jorg flew jets! As he tells it, the most amazing thing about the jets he flew was that there were ten models, not just one. Presently, his wife is a young Korean lady. I have never met her. Anyway, yes the class was fun. I have another this summer.