Kane Farabaugh's Kanestergram

Joanne Clare Smith and Kane Richard Farabaugh, both of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were married at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, at Trafalgar Park in Standlynch, Wiltshire, England. Wiltshire County Registrar Celia Wood officiated. Parents of the couple are Michael and Linda Smith of Verwood, Dorset, England, and Richard and Janet Farabaugh of Carnegie, Pa., formerly of Marseilles. Bridesmaid was Ashley Farabaugh of Pittsburgh, formerly of Marseilles, sister of the groom. Best man was Daniel Millbauer of Fort Bragg, N.C. Groomsmen were Matthew Wrobel of Boston, formerly of Ottawa, and Richard Marincic of Los Angeles, formerly of Ottawa. Witnesses were Simon Smith of Bognor Regis, England, brother of the bride, and Shobha Kassell of Bournemouth, England, aunt of the bride. Reader was Andrew Kassell of Bournemouth, uncle of the bride. The reception took place at Trafalgar Park dining hall. A reception also will take place in November at the Wyndham in Pittsburgh. The bride is a 1995 gradua...

Sorry for this mass e-mail, but I just wanted to share these pics of our interview with John Flansberg and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants with you. These guys have been my favorite band since being introduced to them by good friends Brian Steep and Carrie Williams in the 1990´s. TMBG is also a favorite of my fiancee Joanne and buddy James Shults, who were both part of our crew for the interview in Manchester England on Sunday. Not only did I get to interview the band for about an hour, but it was also my first live TMBG show, and it rocked! The stories and articles from the interview should hit the web soon... if you´re interested, I´ll keep ya posted. Enjoy... and drop a line. Cheers! Kane

COLEVILLE SUR MER, FRANCE -- Under clear skies and a glaring sun -- nothing like the stormy, wet morning some 60 years ago -- President George W. Bush paused to remember one great sacrifice of "The Greatest Generation." "A D-Day veteran remembers the only thing that made me feel good was looking around to find someone more scared than I felt. That man was hard to find." President Bush's words echoed across a garden of veterans, both those who are laid to rest in the Normandy American Military Cemetery, and those who have gathered to pay their respects to the fallen. Men like Medal of Honor Recipient Walter H. Eehlers. Eehlers and his brother both fought in the D-Day invasion. "I tell people that my brother was my greatest hero because we fought together through Africa and Sicily. This was our third invasion, and he didn't make it." There are a million of stories like Eehlers. Men who were scared beyond belief and in the face of great peril they per...

COLEVILLE SUR MER, FRANCE -- The freshly cut lawns of the Normandy American Military Cemetery near Omaha Beach hold the remains of 9,387 American servicemembers who died liberating Europe. Their remains are identified by white crosses, Stars of David, and Latin crosses. Their graves span 173 acres officially recognized as American soil. But before there were markers or monuments here, there were men at war -- 150,000 of them, most from England, France, Canada, Australia and the United States, who formed the core of the forces that landed on the beaches of Normandy in June of 1944. One of 18 died trying to breach Adolf Hitler's Fortress Europa in those early stages of the first great battle of the last great war. No guarantee of success, no easy way off the hundreds of Higgins boats that carried them from the ships to the beach, no certainty as to the number of German troops waiting for them on the beaches of France could stop the brave men of the Allied Forces who would embark on G...

COLEVILLE SUR MER, FRANCE -- He's the face of countless documentaries and the NBC Nightly News, but Tom Brokaw's journalistic scope goes further than the television set. "The 40th Anniversary of D-Day, I began to walk the beaches with members of the Big Red One who survived that day," Brokaw tells me on the set of the Nightly News -- on location at the American Military Cemetery in Normandy, France. "One went on to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. The other one lost both his legs in the war. They were so humble and they were so courageous... that was really the beginning with what I thought we owed this great generation." That meeting with veterans in Normandy 20 years ago would translate into three different books, the most popular being the New York Times Bestseller "The Greatest Generation." He also drew some of the inspiration for the project from his own family. "My first memories of life really are of the war," he says in a dee...

THE FORGOTTEN PEACEKEEPERS Soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula still keep the peace between Egypt and Israel BY KANE FARABAUGH for the Daily Times SHARM EL SHEIK, EGYPT - Since 1948, the state of Israel and the Arab Republic of Egypt have fought five wars over a piece of land that is both bridge and barrier between the continents of Africa and Asia. The Sinai Peninsula, home to Mount Sinai where it is said Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, now belongs to Egypt, but the peace between Egypt and Israel belongs, in part, to an eleven nation peacekeeping effort known as the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO). “We are NOT the U.N.,” says Joint Task Force Sinai Public Affairs officer, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Johnson. The Treaty of Peace, signed by Egypt and Israel in 1979, divides the Sinai Peninsula into four zones (A,B,C, and D). After a phased Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, the M-F-O stood up in 1982 to help both countries stick to the guidelines in their peace a...

Kane Farabaugh of Frankfurt, Germany, and Joanne Smith of Frankfurt, Germany will marry at 2:30PM on October 9th 2004 at the stately home of Trafalgar Park in Wiltshire, England. Parents of the couple are Linda and Mike Smith of Verwood, Dorset, England, and Janet and Rich Farabaugh of Carnegie, PA formerly of Marseilles, IL. The bride-elect is a 1995 graduate of Queen Elizabeth's Upper School, Wimborne, Dorset, England. She is a product development officer for French bank BNP Paribas in Frankfurt, Germany. The future groom is a 1995 graduate of Ottawa Township High School. He is employed as a senior producer and correspondent for the American Forces Network Europe based in Frankfurt Germany. The couple also plan to have a stateside wedding reception in Pittsburgh, PA on November 26th, 2004.