I dont even know anymore. Are these people still salvagable?
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Thanks for your service. Its great you were able to explore. I’ve heard it’s a beautiful country. My mom’s cousin was in the Army based in Germany. My mom & grandma visited her in either 79 or 80. I’m 55 & probably started traveling around three years old. My grandparents always took me with them on trips. My mom’s entire family always took trips together. I don’t know many people that grew up like we did. We were not rich but back then you could travel on a budget.
Oh, I wasn't the military member, I was the tag along spouse (although back in those days even when you had a full time job A LOT of volunteer hours were required of the spouse for the military member to get ahead).
Ah, your mom and grandma got to visit Germany when the exchange rate was good :) Did they go into East Germany? I went the summer before the wall fell. Drove the Marienborn Autobahn so I got to experience the real life "Papers, please" with the Soviet checkpoints.
Well thanks to your spouse for her service & you supporting her. I didn’t know spouses used to be required to volunteer. I don’t remember hearing about Berlin. I’m not sure where her cousin was stationed. Her husband was also in the army. In his last years he worked in Cowell Powell’s office. I’d love to talk to him now that I’m awake. We have lost contact with that side of the family, she (cousin) passed several years ago. I was in 7th grade when she went & I don’t remember a lot of details of the trip.
Yeah back then as an officer's wife we were expected to be very supportive our our husband's careers. So besides the typical luncheons, teas, coffees, etc. we had to attend we were supposed to be visible in the military community. So volunteering with Army Community Service, Red Cross, Crisis Support, doing bake sales, etc. was expected. And if we sat on the boards of those organizations, extra brownie points for our husband's career! It was the time after "If the Army wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one!" They discovered the wives and decided they could put us to work. I don't think they do that stuff anymore, though.