European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 25, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3 a moving experience Young essayists Tell of challenges of changing places by Steve scholar Kaiserslautern Bureau Sembach a Germany a it s a subject that is near and dear to the heart of every Young military family member who has Ever moved and left a Best Friend far behind. And a Sembach a essay contest for school children during . Air forces in Europe family week revealed three Young adults with different perspectives but similar feelings about that constant of military life moving. Charlene Delos Reyes 12, Paddy Finlayson 13, and Jim Mccracken 11, recently picked up honors for their essays As part of family week which Sembach began observing Friday and continues through this week. Coinciding with the week of the thanksgiving Holiday the Observance is designed to highlight the Milita _ iry n and the contributions they make. A family week gets people f Back on families Quot said Sanaa Mccracki a a a with All the chaise focused in Jim s Mother Lenges of living overseas it gives people an Opportunity to get Back to their families. I think  the three essayists presented their works to a military family dining in Friday at Sembach. A dining Inis a formal event for military members but in this instance the occasion was open to their family members As Well. The themes in the essays struck Home because All in the audience had experienced the transitions and Many of the finny and not so funny moving experiences related said capt. Ray Cornelius a Sembach spokesman. \ for Charlene daughter of tech. Sgt. Alejandro and Precilla Canilao the Best thing about moving is Quot getting to see neat things. I be lived in five places since was born. I would like to see everything in  Jim s father is capt. Gary Mccracken. The 11-year-old was almost stoic in his approach to moving. The Best part of moving and being in Germany he said is Quot seeing the different landmarks and the different places. It takes about three months to get used to everything but it s easier to move in the states because everyone Speaks  Paddy said it was of to move and travel and it was even Cool Quot to go places with my family skiing is the Best part of being in  whose parents Are maj. Chris and Euen Finlayson said this was his Sec Ond move to Germany and Quot it seems  the following excerpts of essays by Jim Charlene and Paddy offer adults an insight into ways of coping with military moves by Jim Mccracken Quot so you want to see the world join the military and you can. There is just one catch the moving. Quot moving Isnit that bad. I mean you ii get to see the world or at least part of a it. First you need to figure out what you re moving yourself and what the movers Are moving. Movers always break priceless things and never seem to break the ugly things. So never Send photo albums or anything with sentimental value. ,. Quot probably the hardest part of moving u the packing. The easiest Way is to get the movers to pack for you. But with this Way you might lose some valuable stuff the worst thing about this Way is your House is a wreck for a week. This Way also has some advantages for m. S4s John Bot mar essay writers from left Charlene Delos Reyes 12, Jim Mccracken 11, and Paddy Finlayson 13, Tell of the Ops and Downs of military life far frailly members. Stance you have to do nothing and you get to eat Frozen dinners for a week. A Quot on the Day you plan to  have to get up and go to the Airport. Here you get a soda and wait for the plane to arrive. Two hours later you be spent 5.000 quarters on soda and you Are still waiting. An hour and $6 later the plane finally arrives. Then there is a delay because a fat Guy gets stuck in the doorway. Quot sow that you Are in the Airport what do you do More than Likely you get lost trying to find the bathroom. While you re in the bathroom your sponsor searches the entire Airport looking for you. At the end of the. Day you see him her at the main doorway. Quot when you get to the hotel you spend Days finding a school a place to live and even finding a place to buy food. Once you find a Home you spend 10 months waiting for your furniture. A by Charlene Delos Reyes Quot moving from one base to another is challenging and can be fun if you have a positive attitude. Even though you try to prepare yourself with the changes you can never be fully prepared. "1 tried to prepare myself for when / have to say goodbye to my friends. When the time came it really Hurt a lot to say goodbye. We exchanged addresses Ana this Way we would keep in touch even though we Are far apart. Quot enrolling into a new school and meeting new faces is a frightening experience for me. Before my family and i arrived to the new base 1 told myself it will be All right. In be already experienced this Anait turned out just Fine. Quot As a conclusion 1 am very fortunate to have friends All Over the world. In a looking Forward to making new friends at  by Paddy Finlayson a ale been in the military life since / was 2 years old. Eating sleeping and drinking military life. There Are Many negative things about the military but the positive things outnumber the neg. Active things by far. Quot i came from Oregon originally where it Rains a lot and is very Green. The next place we lived was in Arizona where we Learned things about desert plants called cacti ants that were bigger and like to bite Little people and How to keep Cool when it was 116 degrees while we were moving. Quot meeting other people is a real Bonus in the military life. So As you can see i have had a lot of experiences learning about cultures new to me languages and meeting other  recess called in trial of wife accused in go s death by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Frankenthal Germany a. The wednesday defendants psychiatric evaluations. The recess came just an hour after the joint trial started for the five three of whom Are charged with having murdered Anny sgt. Douglas r. Buckmaster 32, on dec. 12,1992. Buckmaster a 12th engr in combat Engineer in Mannheim allegedly was beaten with a baseball Bat and thrown out the window of his 17th-floor government leased apartment in Frankenthal about seven Miles Northwest of Mannheim. Those charged with murder Are his wife Deborah l. Buckmaster her German Boyfriend Stefan Tanski and another German Man Dietmar Seebold. The three judge panel at the Franken Thal state court also is weighing charges against another Man and woman both germans accused of being accomplices to the murder. All four germans Are from the Heilbronn area. Deborah Buckmaster who has been in jail since her arrest last january appeared in court in Handcuffs and under Klice guard. Her attorney Werner inner of Munich asked the court for time to obtain a psychiatrist s expert opinion on her capacity for guilt in committing criminal acts. The 30-year-old american woman is claiming in her defense that she suffered sexual abuse As a child from her father and her Uncle and additional sexual abuse and severe beatings from her husband. She claims that one of those beatings caused her to have a miscarriage. By itself Leitner a request for an expert opinion would have prompted the judges to Rule that Deborah Buckmaster should be tried separately according to presiding judge Gerold Kraayvanger. But Tanskie a lawyer also has requested an evaluation for his client and Seebold a lawyer is considering doing so As Well so the judges postponed the entire proceeding. The panel was unable to say when the trial would resume. Asked what the minimum delay would be Kraayvanger answered Quot you can count on three  German police originally termed sgt. Buckmaster death a suicide but further investigation by the army s criminal investigation come turned up evidence of  gets it jail in marijuana Case nato a Geilenkirche Germany a amps a a 29-year-old airman is the latest person to learn that a . Service member who takes in a Quot joint Quot often ends up in the other . An All officer special court martial panel sentenced the airman sgt. Kevin Johnston to four months imprisonment Friday after finding him guilty of one count of using marijuana according to the local staff judge advocate s office. Johnston assigned to the 36th medical so also was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge and reduction to the lowest enlisted Grade. He will serve his jail term at the army confinement facility in Mannheim. The airman had pleaded innocent. The trial was held at nato a Geilen Kir Chen where Johnston had worked As a dental specialist. /