This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.

During Operation Desert Storm, Al and Barbara Davis, a retired Virginia couple, read that soldiers in the field weren't getting enough potassium and protein. One problem was that bananas, an excellent source of potassium, spoiled before they could get to the soldiers.

So Al and Barbara had an idea: why not make banana-nut bread and send it to the soldiers overseas? Their bread-making operation has become a daily task: they make 100 loaves every morning, which they mail to soldiers in the Middle East. Since 1991 when they first began their bread- baking, Al and Barbara Davis have made and mailed over 35,000 loaves of bread to U.S. troops.

I thought of Al an…