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Return to Nijubashi Bridge February 1954. Mom, sister Dawn and I boarded the General E.D. Patrick troop ship in San Francisco and headed to Yokohama, Japan where we rendezvoused with my father, Sgt. E.F. Curtis. I was only three years old and these are the earliest memories of my life, thanks to a [...]
Life in Libya - 1950's Wheelus Field Dependents School As I got older and became a writer and editor, I thought back to the adventurous days of being a military brat and living in exotic places like Tripoli, Libya. The Middle East seemed to be changing for the better in [...]
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Powdered Ice Cream From Peggy (Thornblom) Campbell: My dad was stationed with the 11th Airborne Division at Camp Schimmelpfennig, Japan, outside of Sendai, after fighting in Europe during World War II. My mother, brother and I joined him by troop ship from Seattle in the spring of 1947, at the [...]
General Jonathan Wainwright's Pilot From Fritzie Herndon Maddock I was a brat in the "old days" when we moved very often, and changed schools right and left. We lived with my grandparents while Daddy was in the China/Burma/India theater flying the infamous "Hump" in the Himalayas. He flew 64 missions supplying [...]
Very Strange Places From Carol Darling: In the mid 1950's when my dad was stationed at Orleans, my parents decided to have us live as a French family in the countryside, rather than military housing. Mom fell in love with Chateau la Mouche an ancient estate home on the banks [...]
Life Evolved Around Constant Movement From Marci Jenkins: From birth in Georgia, to toddler in Germany, on to New Mexico then the Philippines and at last the place we thought of as "home", Michigan, my life evolved around constant movement. I have so many wonderful memories of all but Georgia, mostly [...]
Quit Being Military Brats? From Judi Forquer Runyon At 62 years old and being married 44 years, I am still an Army Brat (in my heart.) My question is, when do we quit being Military Brats? My heart has so many stories and life experiences because of it! I would never [...]
Dad Was Leaving the Next Day Kathy Garrett shared her story: In the summer of 1965 my parents gathered us together one evening and told us that my dad was leaving the next day. It was a big secret and we weren’t allowed to tell anyone until after the ship had [...]
A Comfort Zone Behind Those Gates From Pam Jackman, NZ Brat I didn't realize at the time but it really was a comfort zone behind those gates. My Dad was in the Royal New Zealand Airforce, having originally been in the Royal Airforce during WWII, and yes my Dad was [...]