"He has no personal effects."

From someone who has been there:

You don't really "arrive" in Germany, as much as you are born there: naked, bleeding, in pain, unsure of your surroundings, not knowing anyone and wondering what in the hell just happened.

Our friend Major Chuck Ziegenfuss was severely wounded in 2005 and is now reliving that experience through the injury of a close friend. The story is here.