During his 8 days
stay in Afghanistan James held a lot of speeches and gave hundreds of
books "All the Way to Berlin" to the men and women.
These books he received from his publisher for free for that purpose.
He had a personal chat with each of them and signed all books.
You can imagine what an enormous amount of energy that took from an almost
91 years 'young' man.
James however never was tired and kept himself and the others busy all
day long. It seemed as if he became 60 years younger when he was among
the troops and could talk with them.
At night, when we headed for bed, James took his pen to wrote in his diary.
Among them a photo from Cor Strik a Dutch guy.
He told me these photos would stay there as long as he was in command to show his respect to these young men who gave their live to let other people live in freedom.
To me it was a touching moment though I never had met Cor Strik before. A Dutch soldier not to be forgotten.
You can buy everything like carpets, (antique) weapons, cd's and dvd's, etc.
See photos below
To support the troops events are organized by USO .
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At KANDAHAR, Kid Rock, Lance Armstrong and Robin Williams performed for the troops.
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