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We were at sunny San Vito Air Station in Brindisi for 5 years (1970 to 1975). Used to listen to Radio Luxembourg all the time. Our three sons belonged to the Scouts (hell yes I support them) and played LL baseball. We used to laugh that my wife and I had Little League A** because we went in to the base at 7:30 a.m. for first son's game at 8. Then rushed to another son's game at 10. Had lunch then went to oldest son's game at 2. When our baby (daughter) started playing T-Ball, well that happened at 4 o'clock, so Saturdays were a long day for us.

Ahhh...Brindisi. We went there to catch a ferry to Greece on one of our summer vacations. It's nice to have Italy as a backdrop for memories of those particular years. I had my first crush on a boy there, got my first lipstick there and it was when I first swiped a mascara tube from my mother's purse to apply at school (because that was not allowed yet.) I always got caught because the mascara would be UNDER my eyes by the time I got home from school.

We had a Rec Field in Naples where all the American brats would go on weekends or summer days. There were barbeecue pits, baseball fields, a football field, campsites and it was circled by woods. It was inside the crater of an extinct volcano. The showed outdoor movies on summer nights and there were many nights when we'd gather with friends and family and have picnics and watch the movies sitting out in the dark.