Thank you, Alan, for passing this on, and for making sure that this man and his story are known: it's so important that people's stories are told.

How many wonderful stories, I wonder, *never* get to be told ?

Here is a quote from a little book I have, called "Words on Courage", that seems very fitting to Heinrich Steinmetz:

       "The courage of very ordinary people is all that
       stands between us and the dark."


- jeanie