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Stories about European Trips (3)

Rob bryant
2006-01-09 11:34:22

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when a tank has to brake for a horse drawn carriage.

Brace Yourself - For over a week in the Balkans, I used braces and crutches as my primary mode of transportation. I walked up two flights of stairs in Kosovo several times/day to my palatial suite with the program manager. I used them while traveling to the Police Stations all over the Balkans and to walk up and down the steps to aircraft (no tunnels here). As hard as it was, it was me who received the blessing as I saw the encouragement I gave to my fellow DynCorp employees, the UN, soldiers from all over the world and the local people. What a blessing and pure grace to walk with braces and crutches! They and God have taken me from Fort Worth to Dallas in 1984, and literally around the world. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic injury that left me a paraplegic � yet I am literally traveling around the world! What is holding you back? Don�t let adversity stop you from moving forward. Allow a positive thought process take you to new heights! Remember, we walked on the moon by shooting for the stars!

150 miles in 14 hours - Although Pristina is only 150 miles from Sarajevo, an American cannot drive from one to the other. The two Balkan cities are separated by a little thing called the Republic of Serbia. It is a communist and Muslim country and the reason the World�s military is here. It was larger, wealthier and stronger than the neighboring countries and tried to wipe-out the Albanians in 1998 in Kosovo. Of course the UN took issue with this idea and the charge was led by the US. The Ethnic Cleansing was stopped and Serbia was forced back into it�s own borders. Serbia still believes it was right and hates NATO and US Citizens. Therefore it has to be avoided by Americans and our passports are not recognized there. People have been taken hostage as political prisoners, their ...