Posted on Sep 14, 2014
Did anyone serve when the Berlin Wall was still up? Did you ever stand a post at Checkpoint Charlie?
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Did anyone serve when the Berlin Wall was still up? Did you ever stand a post at Checkpoint Charlie? Please share your experiences. PHOTOS!!!
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I wasn't in Germany at the time of East/West Germany. I came to Germany a few years later (94/95). Unfortunately by that time they had tore so much of the old wall down it was hard to fully appreciate what it was. I did go to 'Checkpoint Charlie' as a tourist (I know not the same thing) that was interesting. And driving through Germany, perhaps it was my vivid imagination but I felt you could still feel and see a difference between the two 'nations'. I am sure East has been built up to match West by now.
Actually I would love to go back but, I have heard it isn't the same anymore. (Nothing ever is)
Actually I would love to go back but, I have heard it isn't the same anymore. (Nothing ever is)
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Was there when changing of the guards at the Prison where Hess was,plus Rat patrol of the boarders,-Joseph Simpson-(Joe)
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Yes, I was in Frankfurt and Fulda? But had no duties in Berlin!
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SPC Troyce Sosebee
I was assigned at Fulda from Nov 1963 to May 1965. I was assigned to the Howitzer Battery there.
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I was stationed at USAREUR HQ and went TDY to Berlin once in 1967 and twice in 1968. 3 days each trip.
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My wife and I did our Christmas shopping two years in East Berlin. With the deutschmark to dollar exchange rate in 1970, everything was cheap. We drove through shopped, dined, and returned home.
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