I’m at the DoD International Personnel Programs conference.  Howard Vickers is one of the attendees.  Howard currently works for Army in Japan, although he worked with me when I first came to Korea.

Anyway, last night Howard is walking to the Metro station and he passes a guy on the street.  Howard said he looked familiar, so he paused and turned around.  The guy he had passed did the same thing.

Get this:  This guy named Canady had been a Soldier in the Army with Howard.  Howard hadn’t seen him since 1986.  After they had jumped into Panama.  It seems that Howard was taking a leak and got hit in the back by sniper fire.  And Canady carried him out.  And Howard hadn’t seen him since.

I’m not sure what the odds are for a random meeting of two old battle buddies like this.  But as Howard relayed the story to me, I couldn’t help but think how cool it was that Howard finally got to thank Canady after all these years. 

And I also thought “hey, this is a bloggable event”.  And so I have.