{ THE POST L SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2009 PAGE fi KUGLER Continued from Page 1 to throw them a ball but they . didn’t understand and just | looked at us.” Although some of the men | in the unit looked into the cost of bringing a dog home, they found it to be too expensive. “I would have loved to bring - one back,” Kugler said. “The gs were beautiful and really ted moral.” Other uninvited visitors | | ‘were ants in their beds, large . camel spiders, scorpions, King | Cobras and large rats. “It was like the wild king- dom out there,” he said. When he was not on patrols ‘or in the Bee Hut, Kugler | passed the time by playing | card games, chess or even an | occasional baseball game. One day members of the Afghanis- | tan Army were on their base and watched a baseball game. “They joined in after a while | | and pitched the balls for us,” ! he said. “Some of them had a | really good arm.” One of Kugler’s duties was to interact with members of the community, like a meet- BER (e10AY 8 33 NB INN: 9.X eo} § 0:1 Nf 180 (© 1 OJ 3 53 =f BIR O/0K thirty- L"” A KE Pole 279, Lakeside Drive Harveys Lake ST -R..E. BT and-greet patrol. Although the soldiers needed an interpreter when they visited the local vil- lage, most of the residents were happy to see them. The children were especial- ly curious as Kugler’s unit dis- tributed items like coloring books, crayons, pencils and other types of school supplies. “We tried to interact with the children,” he said. “They are the ones who will grow up and be in control of the country.” When asked if he heard gun fire or saw any action, Kugler’s guard immediately showed. “I really can’t talk about that; we did see some action,” he said. Trying to get back into the swing of daily life, Kugler still finds himself re-adjusting to driving, being in a crowd and the quietness of home. “There was constant noise of the Humvees, helicopters and . generators,” he said. “I still find “myself on guard when I'm in a crowd. That’s when you had to be very careful over there.” Gibben said Kugler has de- veloped a deeper appreciation for life and its possibilities since his return home. “As a police officer, he al- ways had a skeptical view of people,” she said. “But now he sees people as people.” SKIS Continued from Page 1 and are spread across the country. Eck attended the former Shaver- town Elementary School, a wooden building at the site of the present Burg- er King, and played Little League base- ball near a swamp behind the current Back Mountain Shopping Center. A member of the Westmoreland High School Band, Eck played basket- ball, baseball and ran track and field. He also did some cross-country ski- ing at Conyngham Field in Trucks- ville and went canoeing on the Sus- quehanna River. In the summers, Eck worked as the waterfront director at Camp Acahela Boy Scout Camp in Blakeslee. He also helped at the Back Mountain Memo- rial Library Auction because his mother was the chairperson of re- freshments and his father, a banker, counted the money. Eck was honored with the Vail Val- ley Foundation’s 2008 Vail Valley Citi- zen of the Year Award on Dec. 5 at the foundation’s annual Black Diamond Ball for his efforts to construct the current hospital and medical facilities in the town. He resides in Vail with his wife, Kathleen, and has two adult stepchildren, Jeni, 33, and Clark, 30. SMART * AGGRESSIVE © COMMITTED JONATHAN 5. 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