European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 stars and stripes july 2007 Rusty and stripes Booth at Frankfurt Commer Bank Arena where Zani name Lany Zani title headed the statistics Crew for the nil Europa Frankfurt Galaxy until the leagues demise last Day Job German based business consultant How big a blow was the june 29 decision to fold nil Europa from the business and marketing Point of you cant fault the logic of the but you cant imagine the pain and anger expressed in the hundreds of emails Ive received since the some of the emails i received that Friday would bring tears to your its like somebody in the family what will be the Impact on the German Community people will still buy nil merchandise and tickets to any nil games Over but those teams will be like a travelling Road it wont be the Frankfurt Galaxy or Rhein fire local fans developed an allegiance to those teams and established a sense of ownership Over they Felt like they were a part of building american football in just be what will be the Impact on the military Community i think the Community will miss the leagues outreach like visits by players and cheerleaders to injured soldiers in the that All whats next for your mostly germans you were training eventually to take Over for you its a really Tough time for have opportunities to work the game or two the nil plans to hold in some of them Are trying to get the German second division to implement the Complete Mcaa stats packages Treyve helped the first division Well still be in How did you get into the stats business in the first place i had done stats in High school and was a student intern in the sports in formation department at my Alma Loyola University of new one Day prior to the new Orleans saints first game As an nil franchise i got a Call saying they were putting together a Gam support i went on to work More than 400 nil and connecting with the Galaxy by the beginning of business reasons brought me to Germany and coincidentally the beginnings of the Nils world league of american foot since All my stats work has been Here in i have done every Galaxy game and most of the world was there a particular highlight the very first the Galaxy played the London it was the first professional game in Europe played by teams who were in a regular it was fun being a part of helping american football grow in and now theres an local businesses leaders have told me they cant imagine a Spring without american football in frankfurt1 s Commer Bank interview by Rusty know someone whose Volunteer awards or Good deeds qualify them for 15 min utes of Fame How about someone whose claim to glory is a bit out of the Ordinary dare we oddball Send the persons name and Contact information to sea Breeze 07 kicks off 13 nations participating in Black sea naval exercise stars and stripes sea Breeze the largest multinational naval exercise in the Black kicks off monday in the exercise was cancelled last year after a slated to 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search Andrescu live fire and maritime Security the release ground forces will con duct nonlethal weapons and tac tics during this sailors will literally stand on the decks of partner ships while they Are under Way and become familiar with the other navies operating procedures and Navy Chip exercise Deputy said in a when they meet in the future to conduct combined peacekeeping or humanitarian or to counter trafficking in or persons in this re they will be better Able to work Walter ret urn of vets do tags packs emotional punch by Carol Ann Alaimo Arizona daily Star the War Veteran bellowed for five minutes when Jess Devaney telephoned from Tuc son to Tell him his Lon lost dog tag had been found in Why do you care whats in it for you Devaney remembers him he was very sometimes theres a lot of anger around what we head of a nationwide Effort to reunite Vietnam vets with personal items recovered Over mailed the dog tag anyway with a note thank ing the Soldier for his he received an other he in sorry for the Way i treated i lost both my that How i lost the dog the Day you i was going to kill he re Calls the Veteran a former Marine corps Rifleman in Viet never knows what hell face during such he has Learned to expect thirty five years after the wars those Small pieces of Metal can still stir up a cauldron of Emo said the president of Tours of peace Vietnam the Tucson based nonprofit group arranges visits to Vietnam for veterans seeking to heal psychological on the Devaney and others Stum ble upon dog tags and other military some times sold As tourist trinkets since Treyve been buying the tags and try ing to return them to veterans or their the Effort costs up to a year and involves hundreds of Volunteer Steve Sneed of a Marine who served in Vietnam and once made dog donates his time to Check each tags cleaning them just enough to read the rank and other As he his mind swims with his own War the Tours of peace Vietnam veterans returns lost dog tags to their when in cleaning the a certain amount of dust will come off and i can smell the dirt of Viet said theres a sadness to it makes me think of the friends who didst come a Trail of Volunteer stretching from Tuc son to then tries to match the tags with their rightful they get help from the National personnel records the keeper of military service and from a genealogy web site that provides the groups researchers with free Access to its Devaney Tours of peace also has a list on its web site of hundreds of names on unclaimed the detective Effort is painstakingly complicated by the passage of time As veterans die or hundreds of letters a year Are sent out to potential leads most Are never heard in the age of Iden Tity Devaney some veterans wrongly assume the letters Are an attempt to scam of dog tags recovered so far by Tours of 270 have been returned to veterans or their next of the rest Are indexed in neat rows in de Vaneys behind every dog tag is a often about the Veteran it belonged through the Devaney Hes Given tags Back to vets with debilitating to War widows and to children forever changed by the deaths of their
