Famous in France

So I’m famous again. You may remember that I was in some footage from ABC back when an IED blast injured their anchor and cameraman. I was shown for two nights on ABC, and footage of me showed up for about three days on Armed Forces Network. Now I’m in a magazine.

Match-Paris magazine from France did a piece on our hospital and it just went to press. My commander approached me in the serving line in the DFAC. He was walking towards me, all grins. I got the same feeling I used to get when the principal would single me out in school; that “oh shit what did I do feeling”. But he was quite happy and presented me with my own copy. It’s all in French of course, but I can make out some of it. I didn’t get interviewed or anything but I got a whole page photo spread of me placing a large femoral catheter into an Iraqi prior to his craniotomy (brain surgery) to remove a bullet. J. Stormo is in the picture too, right behind me. Several other people from the 332nd are featured, and we all received our own copies. I can’t read French but I’m told the piece is laudatory of our efforts here. It’s really nice and I think I’m going to frame it. Unless you guys think that’s too gauche. (ha ha) Bye for now. I’m going to eat some Landjaeger and have a near beer.