Air Force Brat
“Since the school year was about to begin, my father divided us children up among three schools. None of them was convenient, least of all the one he chose for me in the heart of the village. My older brother Tommy rode the bus to the air base every morning. (It was driven by an insane, personable, older airman who’d been busted down twice to airman first class for God knows what crimes).
Tommy’s round trip to Chambley and Ars took two hours a day.
Longer, once winter came, and sometimes he coul...d not come home at all due to impassable roads in villages without snowplows. Then he stayed with my father at the BOQ, grateful to have “the Old Man”
all to himself.
Kevin and Terry took a smaller, much older bus to the American Army School in Metz. From what I can remember and was later told, most overseas base schools were ill-equipped and lacked in quality teachers. My own gigantic gaps in education can be traced to this second-rate schooling for dependents overseas. I missed, for example, learning to tell time, embarrassing myself literally hundreds of times before I finally sat down at thirteen with a book and figured it out on my own.MoreLess
Tommy’s round trip to Chambley and Ars took two hours a day.
Longer, once winter came, and sometimes he coul...d not come home at all due to impassable roads in villages without snowplows. Then he stayed with my father at the BOQ, grateful to have “the Old Man”
all to himself.
Kevin and Terry took a smaller, much older bus to the American Army School in Metz. From what I can remember and was later told, most overseas base schools were ill-equipped and lacked in quality teachers. My own gigantic gaps in education can be traced to this second-rate schooling for dependents overseas. I missed, for example, learning to tell time, embarrassing myself literally hundreds of times before I finally sat down at thirteen with a book and figured it out on my own.MoreLess
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