to be on these flights because we knew these evacuees were coming with no opportunity to prepare and to take things that you and i would prepare for an international flight. spending their own money, they purchased diapers and wipes and candy and balloons and other, coloring books and other things they knew the evacuees were going to need and refused to take any reimbursement from us, from the pilots for this. >> and i know this opportunity was personally poignant for you. why? >> it was for a couple of reasons. first of all, for superficial selfish reasons. ram stein air force was where i first learned to fly an airplane, where i soloed and got my pilot's license. so to be able to be at the peak of my career and come back and fly out of ramstein again was quite the thrill for me. but more importantly, i'm the son of an immigrant in the united states. my father was a holocaust survivor. he was liberated from the concentration camp by patton's