[VadeRetro]

At least I didn't pronounce "U-Bahn" (the subway) the same as Yuban coffee. My squadron's First Sergeant did.

("Ooo-bon")

[narby]

I spent a year at Hahn Flugplatz tending F-4Es between 1976 and 1978. Didn't learn very much german then, but I took several business trips back there in the last few years. Got a CD on german, and got out "on the economy" more in those trips than I did in the 70's.

The thing I regret not doing was traveling to Berlin back then and crossing over into the east. There was an effort going on to persuade us to make trips over there so we could keep established our right to do so. But I wouldn't have been able to take my family, and I'd have had to sew stripes on my Class A's, so I didn't do it.

I finally made the trip to Berlin a couple of years ago. Saw the "Checkpoint Charlie" museum. You'd be hard pressed to find where the wall was in the city, but I think I caught a glimpse of it from the train on the trip through. Apparently that's the only place it still exists is through farm fields outside of town.