[Husker] We are everywhere (Afghanistan Included)

[Steve Cornelius]

Thank you for your service!

--
Steve Cornelius




On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Jeffery A. Brown Sr. <
huskers_001 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Fellow Husker Fans,
>
> Although we cannot wear our beloved Husker gear here at Kandahar Air Field,
> Afghanistan, we Husker fans still find each other (uniforms or PT gear
> only).  I've run into a couple of fellow Husker fans.  I'm hoping BTN2GO is
> my ticket to the game.  I'll have my jersey draped over the table or chair
> while watching the game at about midnight Afghanistan time.  Then, I'll
> watch my son get married in Omaha at about 0300 Afghanistan time.  I
> suspect
> the game will be long over (score-wise) by then.
>
> I also have a rabid Ohio State and Wisconsin fan in my office.  Could be a
> long deployment...or not!
>
> GO BIG RED!!!
>
> Jeff Brown
> a.k.a. Huskers1
> from KAF, Afghanistan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Steve Schmadeke
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 6:52 PM
> To: J1a2c3k at aol.com
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] We are everywhere
>
>
> I was in Australia last summer, doing my best to follow the ongoing
> situation with the Big Ten negotiations.  During a tour of Sydney, along
> pulls up a tour bus that disgorges a bunch of Nebraskans easily
> recognizable
> from the high preponderance of Husker gear, so I walk up and without any
> preliminaries we all started talking about the Big Ten situation.  My
> Tennessean in-laws hadn't a clue why from their point of view I suddenly
> was
> the focal point of a bunch of strangers halfway around the world.  (And as
> it turns out, there was probably no more than one degree of separation with
> quite a few of them.  The group was from Columbus, both of my parents
> families are from Platte, Madison and Boone counties.)
>
> My Husker cold-weather gear also found me some friends in Vienna, Austria
> on
> New Year's Day, 2005.
>
> We truly are everywhere.
>
> On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:06 AM, J1a2c3k at aol.com wrote:
>
> > While playing  golf on base (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio:  location of
> > the AF Institute of Technology, where a lot of AF Officer engineers
> > get their advanced degrees) we let two young men play through and they
> > saw my  Husker baseball cap and one said he was from Omaha, and the
> > other graduated from Missouri.
> >
> > Jack
> > near Dayton,  Ohio
> >
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> >
> >
> > In a message dated 9/2/2011 9:50:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > gobigredlist at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Went to  get a bagel this morning here in Charlotte, NC.  I was wearing
> > some
> > Husker stuff.  While in line, a little girl, I would guess six  years
> old,
> > comes up to me and says "Are you from Nebraska?".  I said  "Yes, I am".
> She
> > says "Do you like the Huskers?"  And I said  "Yes I do.  Do you like
> them?"
> > She puts on a huge smile and says "I  LOVE the Huskers!"
> >
> > Wear Red.  Be  Loud.
> >
> > Dave
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