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Been gone 5 years now, but still have dreams in Japanese, almost daily (kanji included, lol), and wake up depressed I am not still there.

It's been 43 years since I left Germany, after a 4+ year tour there. Traben-Trarbach remains my "second home", so many great memories.

They're stronger than ever, as I reflect on the 1980 election. My neighbors pleaded with me to vote for Carter, they were sure that Reagan would start WWIII. My main argument was that the world is a safer place when America is strong. That remains true to this day.

LOL, my daughter knows it will be time to put me away, when I speak too often of the Summer of 79. I was the XO of a 40 man admin/log unit at the German AA range at Todendorf. We were the only Americans for 200 miles. No disciplinary problems, thanks to a nearby tourist town that came to life during the summer, with the greatest concentration of newly divorced women I've ever encountered. They fell in love with my soldiers, who reciprocated the affection.

I remember '79 well.. cried because my dad (SEAL) said he was being called back into duty, and he was involved with sending Iran broken helicopter engines to slow the process..(another long story)

Yeah, exactly.. at the time, I lived almost half my life there, and I still feel it is more home than here (especially "here"..(Hawaii)..
I was raised on a ranch in Texas, and learned history before most of the communists rewrote the books.. and the rest BEFORE all this revision crap.. (no idea what they are teaching now..)..

Oh.. question: Do you still have dreams in German?

I remember some (military) shrink telling me that we don’t dream in color, nor with characters (including alpha-numeric)..

BULL-SH!T.. My dreams have both color AND hiragana/kanji.. I see/hear/smell being there, almost daily.. at least once a week...