European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stripes july group i i speak about the shift i Dort meanly our straight i mean less prejudice to per y Cert ignorance and 10 per cent exper Lenca the level or knowledge toward shift Era is amazingly i was informed of a Brief ing scheduled in certain time when i explained that particular iwo on to the individual was amused at thwart when he Well you areal going to sleep All Day Are but fellow shift leis also men Tion How Many chances we get for school ing and How grateful we should be Hal he Eai Cantlon Center arrange now How Man limes have you missed class because you get gone la after of to find you cant Chance a few hours sleep beforehand Orfea youll oversleep a How Many Tours to Art to go on if you end up not getting a weekend of it again now Many holidays or Fth Matey weekends had off Jln four and a half years i have never had easier had Wrt yol a july 4thoff worked raidsjjuly3 and one new years eve off and Ive never had a thanksgiving see what i mean and As if to rub tall into the Bow about our straight Day friends who will you have to work on a saturday or what Are you complaining about you dont do anything at you May get Lucky and have a schedule that is Good because of Manning l Haven had my leave since 197s because of Lack of but 1 have had my share of bad Day iry working Thoar shifts for nine Days Kwh two Days Tor one Cycle Ive worked it three months plus have you Ever had to go to the dentist at 3 have you Ever had a commanders Call have you Ever tried w take a wednesday and Friday course at shift workers Are eternally caught in a and airmen How sad Mertig such a great debt to ser i fact lha whue Bui what can anyone do someone has to work of we Art Here for a Mission i doubt if the military give compensation pay for the continual in regardless of what regulations by a shift laugh i your face 11 you mention an eight hour rest be tween or schooling is there if you As weit Tiia Tweh almost As i j must Teu f dont taunt us shift with see Europe on your off Duter or in sports or get an to new York there is a time in the depth of somewhere Between the hour of euphoria and the hour of the in which one sinks As listlessly and inexorably into the Pil of hopelessness As a spoon falling through a barrel of this is the hour of the car it is known Only to insomniacs and night people As if those two afflictions were not sufficient Are also addicted to pos Midnight television and particularly to television reruns of old for Rea sons known Only the Cash Register keep ers in charge of television the Good movies Are almost always held Back until the hour of the car when All of lifes winners Are sound the Good movies rarely Start before and the True greats most commonly cannot be seen before is this because persons of taste and discernment spend the Early hours of night doing such interesting things that they have no Lime fort Leviston until the pit of night i do not what every movie Lover does is that the stuff Avail Able before Midnight is usually Low Quali on the other the commercials thai intersperse the Martyn Ghl trash Are High often higher Quality than the movie they Are lavishly cleverly smartly beautifully the Earl night commercials often provide a fresh breath of entertainment to relieve the air of heavy labor emanating from the movie these Uptown commercials Are repeated until the viewer feats like an imbecile in the Power of an automaton determined to Leach him the multiplication after the Soth or och exposure to the Bacon one wants to shout to the pict rebook this really is great to show that the lesson has been Learned before the picture Book husband can this is great you shout the the husband goes ahead and repeats it this is Greal All he May still be treating you like a but you know Yon have passed a have made have mastered the great the great old movie and for a few minutes television is bal the movie is High Quality the commercials Are High this is great this miserable Wile a guilty of inflicting unclean collars on her and this intolerable seizure of gastric la it not amusing to see it so ingeniously foiled by the perfect Stan one settles feeling television a Complete Harmony of Acqula Story impulse and As beguiling salesmanship matches Cary Fredric March and Katharine Hepburn Prog Toimi great Marv piously laundered collars and chastened gastric then the hour of the car the elegant commercials retire for the night and Gary Coopers scene is followed abruptly by a Man strolling among his ibo to mobiles howling about this Man is to Gary Cooper As soupy sales w to Charles de his whole commercial is illuminated with a five Watt his voice is on loan from a bus station but the terrible thing about the truly terrible thing which logins to Eal into the is the knowledge that he will be Back after Lor Iwu he be Back you could endure him three As the Price of seeing Miriam hop Carole Irene but Hes going to put patience to the trial of rack and Castinado before this night is not Only will he reappear time and time and time and Lime but these reappearance will happen at increasingly closer the car of is Only a Meta phor for the of Puchen who infest the there is the carpet incessantly walking to his Ware the suit tie parly with the fantastic new vegetable in and ail for incredibly Low Price and Back to Gary Cooper after plus fantastic record the 87 hits of Tite Ozone Beach accordion yours today on this two record set for Only never make it to the end of the great its a Case of Low tolerance to Tor at you May gel 10 of movie and 10 minutes of the worlds most Resis Tible it May be that the movie never out simply fades away into unbroken hours in habited Only by the car dealer the Carpel the suit the vegetable the suspiciously under priced re n it is safer to surrender before the hour of Ibe Wolf this leaves time for a morning which gives you the Chance to this is Greal rather understand and show consideration 10 the True he Ourada manned in a Lucky i will be constraining into a straight Day i Pray that i never show As much to shift workers As Ive had shown to and who return to their coffin Al Sun of Many creeping apathy the american disease of creeping apathy appears to be affecting even the and menu that the servicemen be and tumbled that from obtaining a we Are told Inan of Tom tres ids told out Vav perhaps it is time to turn or worry and our Money towards the crippled veterans of who paid As Ufa or Gher a Price for Ihler country but who dont Quality for the Loulli tag perhaps we lust need to reexamine our and ask we Are doing so much for so when there Are so Many who need so much it s not really Una Merican for either a nation or any individual to share in the High Cost of nor to a Precia live of what they May already two Jeffrey us silly Germany Al letters to the editor most contain full printed name and address it the and Mast be germans have inherent Pride i have been hearing some of my friends express bewilderment at the fact that there seems to be so much hostility fell toward americana by the germans they have come in Contact especially the younger germans who seem to View us with open Ive heard Many different opinions Aslo Why this is some others not so but Here i would like to touch on one particular facet of the problem that int mentioned very the German pc put have always had an inherent Pride being no Mailer what they Havn been subjected to or have endeavoured to they have always exhibited a fierce National is once again a world not much of a military but most certainly an economic they can now once again look at european Tel Rubora with a Clea Senst of Sut there is one Factor that this Pride from coming to full now the fact that there is another try which is immensely non affluent than theirs and wields much political strength than Germany is not really Al the problem Steps Iron the act that there is no social insulation Between the two if one is not always reminded that there b someone better off than he then it b easier to exercise a healthy measure of if the German people could comfortably refer to us As Liose people across the Ocean Wen our relation ship would probably be leu Sudiel not the due to the Large number of military and civil Ian americans living the germans Are visibly and continually reminded that America try to put yourselves in their imagine a urge number of germans living and working in some of them Are your neighbors but few of them Peak in add to this the fact thai you know they Are there to protect your country like you were helpless or 1 submit Many of the especially the younger have a definite image of us mid they dont of course we areal at a like the picture five but prejudice is something Man has been righting for quite some and in sure it has its place in this prob Kenneth Davis Germany err Tom ally us it St limit rot n my Merit but we Terr Hhd Van t m v a unmet o him att Hytt am Riikol my my 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