COLD WAR BRATS II: FRANKFURT AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL I

COLD WAR BRATS 

II 

FRANKFURT AMERICAN 

HIGH SCHOOL 

I 

"As a kid, as a child of the Cold War, I had been 'stationed' abroad, in Guam and Japan and Germany." 

(Continued in HERE BE GIANTS) 

More 

Cold War Brats 

here & 

here & 

here 

PROMISES, PROMISES: OBAMA & THE WOUNDED WARRIORS' CAREGIVERS

PROMISES & 

PRETTY SPEECHES. 

OH, YES. 

RESULTS? 

OH, NO.  

OBAMA & THE 

WOUNDED WARRIORS' 

CAREGIVERS 

ROWS OF GRAVESITES 

IN 

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 

WITH THE PENTAGON 

IN THE BACKGROUND 

Read more about it -- here -- and here -- 

Speaking as an Army brat, and a caregiver (not of one of the current Wounded Warriors; no direct personal "special interest"), I find this most unfortunate, even reprehensible, but as one who has seen Pentagon promises (and presidential promises) broken before, unfortunately not surprising. 

Speaking as a political scientist and student of leadership in organizations, I can even "understand" it. There will always be another war, hot or cold, and its needs will be -- or seem -- more pressing than combat/missions five or ten or twenty or thirty or more years in the past. And then there is always the need for more military hardware just to keep up with (and surpass! even more) the Joneses or the Wangs.... 

But shame! 

IN HONOR OF THE LIBERATION OF ROME, June 4, 1944

IN HONOR OF

THE LIBERATION

OF ROME

June 4, 1944

LONG AGO NOW

TWO MEN MEET BESIDE

THE ARCH OF TITUS

ON THE VIA SACRA

LEADING TO THE ROMAN FORUM

It is, we are told, "The oldest surviving arch in Rome"; it is also "the simplest, has only one opening, and is perhaps most well-proportioned of the arches still standing." It is the model for the Arc de Triomphe, "which maintains the exact proportions of the Arch of Titus, though several times larger." (Two academic discussions of the Arch of Titus here and here.)

The Narva Triumphal Arch in St. Petersburg, in turn, was designed in answer to the Paris Arc de Triomphe, and in celebration of the Russian victory over Napoleon.

Rome was the first of the three Axis capitals to be captured by the Allies in World War II.

I ended up photographing the Roman Forum on an excursion from Germany as an Army brat in the Cold War. Who the two men by the arch were and what they were so engrossed in discussing is one of the retrospective mysteries of photography.

A GERMAN TRAIN CONDUCTOR...BACK IN THE DAY...OF THE COLD WAR: MEMORIES OF AN ARMY BRAT

MEMORIES OF AN ARMY BRAT

A GERMAN TRAIN CONDUCTOR

BACK IN THE DAY...

THE DAYS OF

THE COLD WAR...

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Army Brats

Giessen

A BOY & HIS DOG & PROPINQUITY

A LAD & HIS DOG

Giessen, Germany

IN HONOR OF

ALLEN ROSS MONASMITH

(HAPPY BIRTHDAY!)

&

PROPINQUITY