Thanks for the kind words Hotrod Tom! You have my condolences for your loss, and your families sacrifice. I too have a step-son who is a Combat Flight Medic, and he is to be deployed to Afghanistan a year from this coming August.
Sometimes in the pursuit of the artifacts left behind my the soldiers of the Blue and the Grey, we tend to forget that they were living breathing men. After my finding of those soldiers, I have a true respect for them, and any artifact that I have the honor to find.
Thank you again, and it never occured to me that as you wrote; "It's sort of funny how you started out searching for some relics from the Civil War and now you are actually a small part of it"
I guess you are right on that though it never occured to me. Now I have new goosebumps!
Thank you again!
Robert Bohrn