Photo by Maj. During that first day, too, each soldier received a hat embroidered with flags of the participating countries. Later in the week buses took the soldiers to Kalamata, where they experienced the local cuisine and the sights and sounds of the harbor town. They also visited a Mycenaean museum in Hora that contains some 4,000 artifacts and a palace built by Mycenaean King Nestor, near the town of Pylos. At week's end, soldiers from the participating nations returned to their respective homes with a little more insight into Greek culture, as well as new friendships and feelings of cooperation that could never have been possible before the end of the Cold War.
Romanian soldiers prepare the refugee camp for the arrival of homeless victims of the earthquake.
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