• 19 May to 5 June  2006 a Europe trip with Margaret, visiting friends and relatives in Heilbronn, Germany (near Stuttgart and Heidelberg)  in Zurich,  in Kolm-Saigurn, Austria,  and in Vienna. Cold and rainy spring, just like here,  but very enjoyable nonetheless.  Lower back pain was the only adverse experience. 

Honor

• On the 5th and 6th of October 07 the National Park Service celebrated restoring P O Box 1142, the top secret interrogation center at Fort Hunt, George Washington's plantation some thirty miles south of Washington DC;  Looking at all the declassified documents and interrogation reports, Brandon Bies the park historian,  recognized what a crucial role P O Box 1142 had played in winning WW-2. The Park Service decided to turn it into a new visitor center.  I was able to help Brandon locate some of the other 20 or 30 surviving  veterans who had worked there as interrogators,  couriers, monitors, and guards;
• We were given a lapel pin  and a certificate of appreciation by Colonel  David Griffith, representing the Secretary of the Army and  Rear Admiral Ann DeBaets Gilbride the commanding admiral of the Navy, representing the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, in front of a new flagpole erected and dedicated for the occasion.  We were driven around P O Box 1142 in restored WW-2 vehicles by park rangers and soldiers in restored WW-2 uniforms.
• What makes P O Box 1142 so memorable is he fact that our group brainstormed and directed the systematic destruction of the German war machine by bombing critical targets like the only ball bearing works in Schweinfurt and the power dams on the River Ruhr and the the Siemens Schuckert submarine battery factory  near Bremerhafen  etc,  instead of indiscriminately bombing population centers, as did the Germans; 
•  Equally significant is the fact that ,  P O Box 1142 is the place where project paperclip was initiated on  command of General  Bissel, head of military intelligence at the Pentagon.  He risked jail by illegally  importing several thousand German scientists and engineers , including Wernher Von Braun and his Peenemuende rocket team,  before the Russians or the British ould ge them.
• This was done by sending a dozen of us, including me and Arno Mayer and Leslie Willson to set up a receiving center on Long Island in Boston Harbor.  A detachment in Germany put the engineers on returning troop ships and navy planes,  and we transferred them via bosun chair at Nixe's Mate, a rock outside Boston Harbor , where ships waited for the Boston Harbor pilot, before the  pilot could get there. Squantum Naval Air Base is where we picked up the ones who came via Navy plane,  mostly
•  B-24's. All the scientists and engineers came voluntarily as employees,  in exchange of the Army taking care of their families in a camp in Germany.
•  I was quoted in the Washington Post as saying that  I got more information from German generals by playing chess and ping-pong with them, than the worthless information our marines get by torture and threats. This made me an icon in the present controversy of whether waterboarding constitutes torture or not. Fact is we observed all the provisions of the Geneva, Helsinki and The Hague conventions,  with a few exceptions involving Waffen-SS nazis  who refused to obey their obligations of surrender.