A recent news story jolted my memory back to my college days at New York University. I graduated from NYU back in 1960, after spending two years in the Army, stationed in Germany. That was in the early 1950s, when Germany was still pretty well scarred from World War II.
American soldiers weren’t very popular in Germany in those days. I was trained as a combat engineer, but the Army needed truck drivers when I arrived, so they gave me a truck. We were also cautioned to stay clear of the Berlin Wall.
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