European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Losing touch Why we miss what we miss by . Kominicki senior staff writer the trouble with Europe simply put is that it in t America. Europe inexplicably to most americans has no round the clock convenience stores no professional wrestling and the merest sprinkling of malls. It May feature Lourdes but it lacks the Miracle of laundromats it offers old castles but no White castles. In Short Europe gives us St. Peter s Church when what we really want is Church s Fried Chicken. It is those losses and myriad More that seem As silly and insignificant that can keep the old world from being the Quot real world Quot for americans assigned overseas according to experts in the Field of cultural adaptation. For americans such As staff sgt. William b Degraphenree an army tank commander in Fulda Germany missing America amounts to continued Uri of to Tel it a
