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  • Memorial Day -- More than just a day off from work

    Memorial Day is a young holiday, peculiarly observed. If you have not served on a detail, volunteered for Honor Guard, or flown a missing man formation over a military ceremony on Memorial Day, you may primarily associate this holiday with the running the Indianapolis 500, the beginning of our 101

  • Museum offers visitors step back in time

    For those who would like to visit a local museum that shows cultural history of the Mosel and Saar regions, including the Eifel, Hunsrueck and Luxembourg area, as well as parts of France, the Rohscheid Open-Air-Museum located about 10 minutes outside of Trier, near the town of Konz is the place to

  • Faces of Freedom

    Dana Schleich is the cousin of Staff Sgt. Angela TerMeer, 52nd Fighter Wing Inspections, Plans and Programs security manger. Dana is a fourth grader at Hanson School in South Dakota and received first place in a poem contest for her poem about Sergeant TerMeer when she was in third grade. The

  • Holy Robe Days in Trier

    Once a year, the Trier diocese hosts the "Holy Robe Days" as the most important diocesan festival in Trier. Thousands of people flock into the city to access the Trier Dom that displays the most precious relic of the cathedral, the tunic of Jesus Christ. People join in the celebrations, which

  • Team effort leads to successful exercise

    Putting together and moving all the pieces required for an exercise like from Germany to Bulgaria for "Reunion April 2009" is not something that happens by sheer luck. More than 200 Airmen from specialties ranging from communications to security forces helped ensure A-10 pilots and maintainers here

  • Law Day 2009: A legacy of liberty — Celebrating Lincoln’s bicentennial

    This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of one of the most influential presidents in United States history, Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln, who had a solid foundation in the law as a practicing attorney for many years before being elected president, wisely emphasized the legal process as a

  • Germans celebrate Labor Day with traditions

    There is a special reason not to leave things outside and to park the car in the garage the night from April 30 to May 1. It's "Witches Night," the night before "Tag der Arbeit" or Labor Day, a federal German holiday. The "witches," are town youngsters who play tricks on people who often make things

  • Easter traditions in Germany

    When the full moon appears in the sky for the first time after the start of spring, the next Sunday is time to celebrate Easter. For Christians throughout the world, this is one of the most important holidays of the year. And although church and religion no longer play such a great part in the

  • Step back in time at Rheinland open air museum

    Looking for insights into how people lived and worked in this rural area of Germany during the past 500 years? Then take the easy 90-kilometer drive north of Bitburg to the wonderful Rheinnischen Freilichtmuseum, Open Air Museum of the Rheinland. During our years of traveling, my wife and I have