Hi Everyone,

I just need to share with all of you the fact that on 22 September 2004, I, Karmen, got to meet the amazing Master Geoff Winnington-Ball in person. The meeting was very signifignt, wonderful and emotional after about 18 months of exchanging information and getting to know each other through this forum.

THIS is the man who has done so much in creating, and providing the MLU, so that in the end, I should find MLU Forum, and MLU itself, who IS Geoff Winnington-Ball ... the man who visited, honoured, and saluted my "Uncle Eddie" Rifleman Edward Smith at rest in Beny-Sur-Mer, Normandy, on my behalf. I can't get over the fact that Geoff was finally standing right in front of me at long last!

I sit here, right now, wearing a T-Shirt given to me by Geoff ... on the T-Shirt is printed:


D-Day
Operation Overlord
June 6th
1944 - 2004

I treasure my T-Shirt as a memento of SO much.

Geoff ... what can I say? You KNOW how meaningful this all is to me, and you also know how very glad I am that you have become such an integral part of this experience, and consequently, my own family history and my own life experiences, and people ultra signifigant to it. Thank you ...

From the heart,

Karmen