To: AmericanInTokyo
Thag was a young, dumb 2nd Lieutenant in Germany in those days. Nov-Dec 1981 was a very scary time. Thag's Christmas leave (along with a lot of other peoples' leaves) almost got cancelled in mid-December because of rising tensions over Poland.
4 posted on
04/04/2005 5:36:02 PM PDT by
thag
(Notice How They Called it a "Thagline"?)
To: thag
I was a young Captain (pilot) in the Strategic Air Command at that time.......so I know exactly what you went through. Not fun times.
To: thag
Yep. That's cuttin' it REALLLL close.
12 posted on
04/04/2005 5:51:26 PM PDT by
AmericanInTokyo
(**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
To: thag
I was at FS Berlin reading early-birds from 1981 - 1984
some interesting times
91 posted on
04/05/2005 10:45:16 AM PDT by
Dstorm
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