Norman Schwarzkopf went to the Fankfurt high school (military post) and played American football against my grandfather who went to Heidelberg High school. They knew each other personally.
From: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/27/obituary-norman-schwarzkopf.html?cmp=rss
" A U.S. official says retired general H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who
commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam
Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.
The official tells The Associated Press that Schwarzkopf died
Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The official wasn't authorized to release the
information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known
popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.
He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in his last
military assignment as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. That
is the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns
in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to
Pakistan. "
