Rusty Duck
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A work in progress.
Once upon a time, I was in the US Army. I served with the Signal Corps for five years with several duty assignments after 14 months of training. This shot was at BCT on Tank Hill, January 1976.
My family and I lived in on-base housing inMünchweiler MünchweileMünchweilerrMünchweiler, Germany between 1979-1981. We hosted PFAL Classes and Twig fellowship meetings in our apartment. We had a very large living room. so it was appropriated without regard for military duty schedules.
I served with the 267th Signal Company, 73rd Signal Battalion. We handled high speed telecommunications traffic between CONUS and USAREUR plus inter-theater, as well as maintaining 24/7 redundancy for hotline connectivity between the Kremlin and the White House via the Hotline.
My duty station in Germany.
Germany is where most military members used their spare time exploring Europe — but I spent 3 years chasing signees for PFAL.
The installation is now but a memory. Hitler's Nazis built the place and the Allies captured it and claimed it for their own during WW2 and here we are. Today, these old buildings are mostly gone and replaced with newer structures, effectively erasing memory pegs from my consciousness. It really is true, you can never truly go home again.
It was a beautiful setting to live and work in. It appears much prettier today than my memory allows me to remember. The psychological trauma seriously damaged my ability to remember happy times there. These photos helped inform my recovery.
The Water Tower where we'd meet and either proselytize with our guitars and Bibles or spread out to canvass the shopping district. Our German wasn't the best but we were passionate, relentless and mildly intrusive with our poor language skills and boorish American mannerisms. We mastered key phrases and learned to recognize many more. The Way in the Military was a different experience than others had, from what I've gathered.
I live in the Pacific Northwest these days, with my amazing wife and our polydactyl kitty. This is a photo of Yaquina Head in Oregon. I live very near this place. It truly is beautiful, grounding and restorative here in the PNW.
Current photo of me wearing a Paul Kenny Hand-Dyed Grateful Dead Shirt.
My back yard at sunset last October. Life on the river is very good.
