European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ann Landers june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 letters dear Ann Landers this May be the most unusual letter you have Ever re i am attach ing my address and phone number in Case you want to verify it but am trusting that you will not reveal my the letter from the woman from Al Toona who slept with every Dick and Harry prompted me to she went to bed with strangers she met in so did after we both got i could never have done such a thing like Altos i always hated myself in the i saw dozens of articles about herpes and aids but they didst bother i had been doing that number for so Long i was sure my chances for getting a disease were about one in a i was i got herpes on one of those on night when my Gneco Logist told me what i i was i was dying to Call up that on night stand and Tell him what a no Good creep he was for not warning but i didst have his phone looking i can see Why he didst warn i meant nothing to a woman who would go for a Tumble Between the sheets with a Man whose last name she didst even know obviously didst place much value on so Why should he when i was going through that first at tack of herpes i Felt like killing it was absolutely the worst week of my but As i look i must admit it was the Best thing that Ever happened to i stopped going to i also stopped drink i took a hard look at myself and decided to change my Way of six months later i met a great Guy at the neighbourhood of All he has accepted me despite my the attacks Are becoming less frequent and less we have a wonderful i feel like the Luckiest woman in the too bad it took herpes to straighten me out but i am Ever so grateful for this second Chance at a Good just Call me Clover in dear four Leaf thanks for an extraordinary any person who can turn herpes into a Triumph has my instead of cursing die you lit a dear Ann Landers in still burned up at All those people who wrote to Tell you How dumb you were to fall for the letter about the Little girl who was lost in the an employee found her in the bathroom with a Man who had Cut her Given her a sedative and was about to carry her out under the the letter turned out to be a so who cares ill bet a lot of people Learned something from that what your column is All int it several months ago i lost track of my wife in a Large shopping the Only system they had for finding lost people was an broke Down Security guard who Are you sure you brought her in with you just keep doing a great Job and Tell those nitpickers to get fan from dear Lan thanks for a Sweet letter but i really dont mind being when in wrong i want to be and apparently Here Are plenty of folks out there who Are Happy to do r America Syndicate reminder All letters to the editor must contain he full printed name and address of the writer and must be we do not read unsigned but we will withhold your name on request and protect your All letters Are subject to Reader offers his opinion on reagans Pitburg visit Ive been hearing a lot about president Rea Gans visit to the German military cemetery in and the barrage of information and opinions has made me reflect on my own visits to military cemeteries in last i took a tour which included visits to Many of the battlefields of world War i saw Brit ish and Canadian each was so Bering and but i was most struck by the differences Between the Normandy american cemetery on the Cliffs above Omaha Beach and the Ger Man cemetery of Lacombe also in nor the american cemetery contains Over on its Periphery Are Sculp Tures and but most riveting Are the Arrow straight rows of White spaced so the grass is amazingly uniform in its the English Channel provides a Gray backdrop to glistening White and the setting is and a Visi Tor is sobered but also inspired and to the experience was i Felt As if the dead had made a sacrifice for a worthwhile to the word Glo rious May seem but it seemed the right adjective to the German cemetery at Lacombe is so although it is next to a main it is screened from View by a surrounding Wall and one could drive by the Entrance in the blink of an Eye and be unaware that the place was even a Central Mound of mass Graves is topped by a Stark whose four figures look Over packed in an area half the size of the american Ceme the Graves Are close each marked by a dark Stone nearly flush with the there is not enough room for an americanized Cross on each there Are symbolic clusters of Basalt crosses in groups of three or it is not by the so the grass int As it is neatly but even on the sunniest it is it resembles nothing so much As a Well maintained but unused practice Field with bizarre Stone hurdles placed about by some dedicated and precise the images of the two cemeteries Are in simplest one Ceme Tery says Victory for a cause justified sacrifice the other come witness the uselessness of these my a world War ii Veteran who was severely wounded in the Huertgen for was with me on the at the Ameri can he at the German he Shook his beneath the stones of Lacombe were the1 comrades of the men who had put him in the Hospital for two disabled him for and caused him occasionally intense pain for the last 40 his son was in protecting through service in a coalition of the sons of those he had it seems to me that my fathers willingness to go to a Ger Man military cemetery symbolized Ameri Cas willingness to i also believe a the nations most symbolic repro should be Able to do the the facts Are unchanged and the culpability but its time to make peace with Germany and the great majority of its citizens who Bear no responsibility for what happened Over 40 years Charles Crawford Germany weight allowances clarified this is the last place i am going to write to get an answer to our when we came to Germany in we had our full weight allowance with storage and things we brought Over since we have been my Mother has and i inherited All her dish these things Are old and but we would like to keep them for our 18year old at the time my Mother Wertheim transportation told you get exception to the policy if you have a death certificate and if you Are a direct so we had the furniture shipped to Wert Heim and paid Marks for now we have been told that there is no Way we can go Over our weight since my Hus band is an an e6 but not an in Wertheim they told us to take our stuff out of pay for it ourselves and pay for the that Way we have the weight of storage pounds to be used to ship things from Over More on scouting regarding Dan Zimsen letter in a re cent Issue praising the German automobile As being better organized than the boy being stationed in i am not familiar with but i do have a Good work ing knowledge of the boy scouts of Ameri while i doubt thai any Agency connected with the government is better organized than the boy j cannot dispute his i would however ask that the scout Law be quoted correctly As a scout is Cour keep in mind the old the Only difference Between the boy scouts and the military is that the boy scouts have adult Jeanguenat Italy in Wuerzburg they said there were no but no one can give us any regu lation about the overweight should be about is there a regulation about this could you give an address where i could write to and get an answer your help would be greatly my husband has been in the army for 26 if one rank can go overweight on exception of Why cant everyone Larry Damron Germany editors note a spokesman from the office of the Deputy chief of he replies request for increases on shipment weight applies Only to an administrative weight and not to full joint travel Regula Tion str if a members full str weight allowance has been sub sequent shipments in connection with the same change of station orders cannot be made at government such ship ments Are the responsibility of the Mem army accompanied members assigned to Germany in grades e7 through o4 and Are authorized their full str the household goods acquired by the inquirer through inheritance Are therefore authorized for ship ment at government expense Only if the full str allowance is not when a service member has or expects to have excess it is the responsibility of the origin transportation office o help the owner minimize the advice provided o ship items now in contemporary storage to the next duty station fit the members own expense was the shipping Cost from Horary storage in the United states to the next duty station in the United states would be far and allows the member to ship the property now within the overseas area not to exceed str Al Lowance to the at government sex european edition cmdr us Proctor acting editor in chief managing editor Blackwell Mcdermott production manager circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views or endorsed the the department of defense or the european 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