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Thomas Borchert wrote:

John,
I like your style ;-)

I am half second generation American from German and Hungarian
immigrants.
I have aunts, uncles and cousins in Germany.
I lived with my great aunt and worked as a praktikant for a year in
Germany. (Firme Albert Siebdruck Fabrik, Frankenthal, Rhineland Pfalz)
I worked and played with Germans and other immigrants when I lived there.
I spoke German the entire time I lived there.
I had some very interesting political discussions with my relatives and
my co-workers and teammates when I lived there. It was an education I
would not have received in this country.
I remember asking one of my co-workers what he thought about the
American military still being in Germany. His response was, "Better than
the Russians."