MiddleFingerMom
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Fri Apr-15-11 08:14 AM
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OK, it was yet ANOTHER international incident, but you can't really blame MiddleFingerMom THIS time. |
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MiddleFingerMom
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Fri Apr-15-11 08:25 AM
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1. Went to West Berlin in the mid-70's (LONG before The Wall came down)... |
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. . . ...and was told by my company clerks that a dress uniform was no longer required if I wanted to cross over into East Berlin -- just as long as I had "East Berlin" specified on my leave paperwork. . . . Got to Checkpoint Charlie (a little tollbooth-like shack) and the PFC at the window is filling out my paperwork when this old grizzled sergeant steps up and looks over his shoulder. . . . "WTF are you doin'?" . . . Turns out you DID still need to wear a uniform and that the East Germans would have recognized me for a soldier right away and arrested me as a spy. . . . Damn. Never did get to cross -- just observe from viewpoints. Was awfully glad at the time, but later kinda pissed. They would have detained me for 24-48 hours as an embarrassment for the U.S. and let me go. . . . How cool a story would THAT have been to tell? . . . "Yep... arrested as an international spy in the 70's." . . . . . . . . . Mom. . . . . . . . . . MiddleFingerMom. . . .
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charlie and algernon
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Fri Apr-15-11 08:50 AM
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2. LOL, yup, I was the guy that started World War III |
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You don't understand, East Germany makes the BEST brats!
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Fri Apr-15-11 08:55 AM
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3. Nah... happened on a pretty regular basis -- on BOTH sides. |
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. . . Best example when I was there were the two drunken old sergeants who took their Jeep JUST over the border line and were arrested by the East German Border Guards (La Migra... La Migra!!!!). . . . THAT made bigtime news and you can bet their careers were over. . . . Nurnberg makes the best brats!!! . . . Li'l bitty ones -- three to a Kaiser roll. . . .
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Fri Apr-15-11 10:39 AM
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4. ..and at first I thought you were talking about childrearing gone wrong! |
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Fri Apr-15-11 08:14 PM
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5. An earlier incident in Germany led up to the events in Japan |
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