In a message dated 06/10/2001 8:09:52 AM Mountain Daylight Time, lumby@air.on.ca writes: > Hello Dave and Carol > > Thanks for your comments: > > If you haven't been back since the USarmy (mostly) and all Canadian Troops > pulled out of Germany, you wouldn't recognise Heilbronn.>> Returned several > times, but not for several years now. We've also heard from others of the > changes. My 507th ASA Group was at the Badenerhof Kaaserned, and I > understand that is gone -- replaced by a residential development. > American Kaserne has been pulled down, with the exception of > one or two barracks, which are being converted in condominiums.>> That > would be the BIG Kaserne, we had the PX/Commissary, etc. ?? > > There is a lot of construction going on now and the Intercity S bahn goes > right through the centre of the city by the Church. It connects about 15 > towns and cities throughout the area and it has a rail right of way. The > Bahnhoff is under construction and the entire street in front of it is torn > up.>> Well, that's better, I guess, than the torn-up mess we had in 1959 > in some places, remnants and residue/detritus of the 1944 bombing !! > > Maybe you could comment on two matters I have always wondered about. > > 1) Who are the young German girls going to marry now that the Canadian and > American forces are gone? :)>> Ah, they're VERY mobile and will find a > man, regardless :-))) > > 2)When we were stationed in Munich from 1964 to 1967, I had access to the > PX . When I went in the front entrance, I saw piles and piles of American > beer. Schlitz, Miller, Schultz, Molsons etc. How come they were so > popular, when the best beer in the world could be purchased dirt cheap on > the local economy? :)>> That IS a puzzler !! However, the American > troops had to have THEIR native beers, eh? > > Those were the days huh?>> We look back on them very fondly -- perhaps > some of the best days of our married lives !! And friends we made there > have lasted yea these 42 years !! > > Ralf and Sonja Response from Dave Ross David and Carol (Benck) Ross Surnames for David Newton Ross; Denver, CO NEWTROSS@aol.com Ross (both sides); Owen; Wright (end of great-grandparent surnames): Alt; Bacher; Beckett; Bishop; Blue; Broad; Burton; Cole; Colonii/Colonius; Cooper; Critton/Critten; Damen; Deaver/Dever/Devor; Dechant/Dechen/Dechent; Dennis; Diebold/Debold; Dietrich; Demmitt/Dimmitt; Fox (Vogt); Frame; Franck; Frey; Garrett; Garth; Gies; Grimmel; Haas; Haggerty; Hawkins; Hehl/Heel; Heinemann; Hemler; Henry; Holzhausen; Jack; Jakobi/Jacoby; Jockers ; Johnson; Jones; Kirchhofer/Kirchhofter; La Roux/La Rue; Lane; Laubenstein; Laubscher; Leitner/Lightner; Loy/Leÿ; Lubberger; Mantz; Martense; Massey; Miller; Müll; Musser; Nesen/Schunck; Niese (a form of Nesen); Ogden; Parks; Parrish; Perrine/Prine; Proctor; Rambler/Rammler; Reed; Sale; Sharpe; Sharrett; Shell/Sheel; Shultz; Simonton; Smith; Sontag; Spriggs; Steurer; Stone; Treon/Trion/Drion; Trout/Troud/Traudt; Tutt; Usile; Vogt (Fox); Walker; Wallauer/Wallaner; Waters; Witt; Zoll Surnames for Carol M. (Benck) Ross (same e-mail address) Ackermann, Auler, Bauer, Baumann, Benck, Benker, Brauer, Brechwalt, Bruhn, Crackow, Dietel, Doehler/Dohler/Döhla/Döla, Ebels, Edelmann, Eiden, Elling, Erdmann, Evert(s), Fabig, Fehres, Fischer, Frehse, Grewe/Greve, Grube, Gruber, Gundlach, Haase, Haidig, Harder, Hartleb, Hertrich, Höffter, Höpner, Jarchow, Joern/Jörn, Junger, Katers, Kayser, Keppel, Kich, Kielgast, Kießling, Klemm, Knoll, Koch/Kock, Kriegling/Kritzlin, Krumm, Lang, Lauer, Linow, Möller/Müller, Peltzer, Petri/Petry, Pfeufer, Putz, Reinhardt, Rössler, Rübel, Rüp, Schiffmann, Schmidt, Schneider, Schroeder/Schröder, Schwab, Seiferth/Seifert, Sittig, Steiner, Taubmann, Thiel, Wagner, Wehrmann