European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Kevin Cowherd Baltimore Sun i his kid with a nose ring and shaved head was on mtg whining about How Tough his generation has it compared to his parents generation and i thought a excuse me a maybe we did no to walk 10 Miles to school each Day but we baby Boomers had lots of other hardships growing up. You kids today you Don t know How Lucky you Are. Take those Remote control clickers. You know when i was your age we did no to even have clickers. If you wanted to change the Channel you had to actually stand up and walk three or four feet to the to. Lots of times the floors weren to carpeted either so your feet could get pretty dam cold. And even if the floors were carpeted it Wasny to that deep pile stuff so it Felt sort of rough and scratchy. Plus the floor was always covered with games and puzzles and stuff so there was always the Chance you could trip and sprain an ankle if you weren to careful. I m telling you things were rough Back then pizza a there a another example. You know when i was your age you  even have pizza delivered to your Home hey done to look at me like that in a serious if you wanted pizza in those Days you had to actually jump in your car and drive to the pizza parlor to get it. A a a a sometimes the ride could take of five or six minutes depending on the traffic. Often by the time you got Home with your pizza it Wasny to even hot anymore just sort of lukewarm. But we ate it anyway. Heck we did no to know  better. Life was difficult Back then. There a no sense pc tending it Wasny to. Arms. You know when i was your age we did no to even have arms. Honest if you wanted to take Money out of the Bank you had to actually walk into the Bank and talk to some one. A a a a a  a a a a a a a first you filled out something called a withdrawal slip which in a not even going to get into Here. Its too complicated. Then you stood in line behind these Little velvet ropes until one of the people who worked for the Bank a it seems to me they were called tellers waited on you. Can you imagine All that hassle just to get 20 Bucks i look Back on it now and i think How did we do a. A a a  Telephone answering machines. This will probably Freak you kids out but when i was your age we did no to even have Telephone answering machines. You think in a kidding but in a not. This is How bad it was Back then if the person you . A a Downes a a a a Usa. Y a % x 5 were trying to reach Wasny to Home you had to just keep calling until he was Home. You  leave a message for hint at  was tougher in those Days. Jobs. When i was your age i was breaking my Back working 5, 5vi hours a Day in a pharmacy stocking shelves with milk of magnesia and straightening the Magazine rack. Working conditions done task. The radio was stuck on am the air conditioning was just of. We got a Lousy half hour for lunch. But Back then you did no to complain. You just made do. See this scar on my thumb i know its Small but. You know How i got it one Day i was opening a Box of hallmark cards at the pharmacy and one of the Staples nicked me. Needed two band aids to cover that baby. There Wasny to a whole lot of blood no. But it stung a a a a. A a a a. Ayou kids today you done to know How Lucky you Are. Please. Done to get me started. Loa ant Rios time we Hington Post news service military brats go a Long Way to reunite by Celestine Sibley Atlanta journal constr Sutlon everybody in the United states a the Man said a has  and then he backed up. A except military brats. They be lived in so Many places and gone to so Many schools. They be made and lost friends with every move and they grow up feeling alienated and  at least that a what the Man said he believed until he met Joe Condrill a military brat who has made a career out of finding old schoolmates and Matching them with people who were in their classes in Germany or Italy England or Japan. Last month about 100 people who followed their parents to Distant military posts and spent a year or two feeling isolated in a strange school in a strange land went to Atlanta for a reunion at the downtown Radisson hotel. Their purpose was to plan their individual High school reunions and round up As Many old schoolmates As possible. For a Long time said . Jorgensen of Marietta one of the reunion promoters overseas brats As they Call themselves could get no help because of a Federal privacy act. But another act providing free Dom of information has come to the Rescue. In recent months they have found As Many As 6,000 old schoolmates whose current addresses seemed forever lost. Some people were found by newsletters circulated to military organizations. Word of Mouth queries helped. A people who come to Joe a annual pilgrimages a said Jorgensen a learn How to Best find people and organize alumni associations. If you can get a line on parents either retired or serving at a military base somewhere you can usually get a line on their sons and  the overseas brats individual High school reunion averages 250 participants. Nurnberg High school had 329 show up for a gathering at Lake Tahoe last june. Another school in Germany Kaiserslautern High had about 1,000. Some overseas brats alumni Are visible. For in stance Gen h. Norman Schwarzkopf was graduated in 1953 from High school in Frankfurt Germany. Congressman Newt Gingrich was a 1961 graduate of Stuttgart High school. Priscilla Presley the sex wife of Elvis Presley was graduated from Wiesbaden High school in 1967. Victoria principal the former Dallas Star was a 1965 Grad of Frankfurt. Stewart Copeland formerly a drummer with the pop group police was a 1970 graduate of Beirut High school. The former miss Virginia Cullen Johnson was a St. Annex a Paris girl. Many High school romances for the sons and daughters of the military have been Cut Short by sudden transfers a a and you think you la never see again the pretty girl you danced with at the prom a Jorgensen said. Some graduates of department of defense de pendent schools go on to College losing touch with their friends some follow their fathers into the service. Jorgensen did not venture a guess As to How Many broken romances might be repaired by overseas brats. But Hie thinks its a great Opportunity for tracking Down old friends. Visitors among the brats who have a list of old friends they have been unable to locate Are invited to Call Jorgensen at 404-955-7333. Cox news service a Page 8 Quot sunday. November 13,1994