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BASIC TRAINING We said our goodbyes to the old guy and his empty old van and got out at Reception near a place called Sand Hill in Fort Benning. Reception at Fort Benning was organized chaos, at first, they simply had us stand in groups of strangers in our civilian clothes. Standing and waiting, somethingContinue reading “Holzhof Enchantment”

My buddy had college and pilot school debt and needed his loans paid off. He had taken me to watch Black Hawk Down, and it motivated him to seek a life of action, he had gone to the recruiters before me and spoken to veterans in the civilian world and got a taste of gloryContinue reading “Holzhof Enchantment”

Andy was all in and wanted me to be all in because the Army recruiters had convinced him that if he joined through the Buddy Program and got someone else to join with him he’d have a guaranteed friend at his first duty station and get more money, debt is a hell of an incentive.Continue reading “the Holzhof Enchantment”

items flown in from far off places with no expense spared and everything was what the British would call Bespoke. The Proposal I met a lot of guys only a few years older than me that said if it weren’t for the pay they’d quit what they did at the conventions and would tell meContinue reading “Holzhof Enchantment”

Chapter 3: In Limbo: After School, Before The Next 20 Years “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” ⁃ Psalm 90:12 What Might Have Been A few months flew by once I was home in Orlando again. Orlando really felt like home after having been away. IContinue reading “the holzhof enchantment”

Groups of friends went to more places on the weekend and one weekend I was invited to go to Prague with a group of guys and girls. I didn’t say anything about what had happened to me instead I just smiled and agreed to go. When we got to the Prague train station there wasContinue reading “The Holzhof Enchantment”

spring and allergies had their way with her, but she was German and blew her nose like a German. It’s a trumpeting sound and back then I thought it was just her not being discreet but nope, its like an accent and every German blows their nose that way. I lived in Bavaria for twentyContinue reading “Tbe Holzhof Enchantment”

near the train station. There were two cops who nodded at David and went back to watching a dazed person holding a full shopping bag. David walked up to the cops and called the guy with the bag over to us. He motioned to the cops and the bag was handed over then the copContinue reading “The Holzhof Enchantment”

I took the next train headed the same direction and got out at Warsaw. I went straight to a Sparkasse bank and took out enough cash for new pants and shoes and two extremely young cops with machine guns cornered me demanding to give them all my money or get arrested. I pushed past themContinue reading “Holzhof Enchantment”

Tame West Rugged East There were three times something happened in the East that the police would have prevented in the west. In the Western European countries it was common for the police to take me to the side and search me in the train station or restaurant districts, whereas I was ignored by theContinue reading “The Holzhof Enchantment”