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Skriven 2008-02-07 13:51:00 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 1936 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: travels
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Hi Hap,

-> I know, but it was 20 years difference. I'm glad we had the opportunity
-> to go when we did.

 hn> Yep, better to have gone late than
 hn> to have not gone at all! (grin) or something like that!

Different time frame, different perspective. I went as an adult, with a
couple of kids but you went as a child (teen).  But, we were in Berlin
when the wall came down; that will always be a hall mark reference for
our time in Germany.

->  hn> I had...But I did buy my bike with my own money, and
->  hn> traveled on my own money and bought all my ski and baseball
->  hn> gear with my own money.

-> So you made some pretty good (for the time) investments.

 hn> chuckle...well I thought so, I also spent a lot of
 hn> Franc's on train tickets to various places as well!

As long as you could, why not?

 hn> Can you believe we were in France for almost 5 years
 hn> and the I was the only one who did much travelling!

I'm surprised your dad and mom didn't go, or was it too close to their
personal history to do so?

 hn> We never even went to Normandy!! I went on my own
 hn> and it was the first time I ever cried for the pain of others.

That would be a hard one to take, especially after reading so much about
it.

->  hn> no problem...if my dad had ever tripped over it he'd have
->  hn> converted it into scrap metal on the spot...as well as
->  hn> my backside!

-> Then we'd be calling you "Old Iron (back) side"? (GD&R)

 hn> Nah, there'd have been nothing left!

You would have a reconstructed one out of scrap metal/ (G)

->  hn> the Commisary and the Exchange and those that
->  hn> did shop on the economy lived there as well. Of course

-> We lived in military housing.  For shopping on the economy, we'd have to
-> get our $$ changed to DM and use them. It wasn't a problem as long as

 hn> We could exhcange franc's for $$ or just spend the $$ on the economy
 hn> and sometimes that was an even better rate of exchange than
 hn> the 5 for 1 rate at the bank.

We didn't have that option; it was all DM on the economy. Got some good
food from those little imbiss stands all over the place--good prices
too. Much better than the fast food places available on post! (G)

 hn> Last year there was a reunion of kids from my school
 hn> (kids...all of us are in the "over 50's now!) back in
 hn> Chateauroux...from what I see on the website you'd
 hn> have thought it was the second coming !!

I've not heard of any reunions from the school Rachel & Deborah went to
while in Germany. Rachel is in touch with some of her Berlin classmates
thru MySpace tho. Interestingly, 3 of them (Rachel and a couple of
others who went to the same church we did in Berlin) are relatively
close together now; they are in Tucson and she is in Las Vegas. They've
half talked about a get together.


->  hn> I have a lot of memories of those days, some good
->  hn> some bad...but mostly I remember the good ones
->  hn> and try to forget the bad ones!

-> That's about normal for most people.

 hn> I've been called a lot of things
 hn> Normal isn't usually one of em (grin)

Normal is a setting on my washer. (G)


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Ruth
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