One of the funny things about life is how small the world is - how you can be thousands of miles from home, and realize that home is right there with you. In December, Dani was in Herat and ran into a family friend - someone her parents worked with in the Nevada Air National Guard many years ago and knew Dani as a girl - Frank Turek. He is working in Afghanistan as a contractor. Recently he was relocated to Kabul and works at Camp Eggers. Dani has had the pleasure of seeing Frank several times week on Qalaa.
An e-mail Frank sent to Dani was very touching, and deserving of sharing for not only civilians deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and for those carrying the weight at home while we are deployed, but also for all the military whose support is required to allow the USACE mission to be successful. The e-mail is below:
"Thanks for your service both here and domestically ~ you're a member of a long line of engineers birthed by West Point engineers and surveyors who mapped out the entire country. Evolved into the USACE family, and has since the early years of the 19th century installed the backbone of our American infrastructure. Thanks, and .....God Bless."
