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  • Babenhausen Remembers

    George Rebane On Friday morning (15 October 2010) the Babenhausen Veterans and Friends were welcomed by Babenhausen’s mayor (Burgermeisterin Gabriele Coutandin) into its city council chambers specially configured for the long-planned ceremony.   Twelve of us former/retired Army officers along with our wives had returned to the duty station where we all served in the early…

  • Disconnected and Reconnected in Germany

    George Rebane We arrived in Germany last Friday, flying British Airways from SFO to London to Munich.  There we rented a car and took off into the countryside heading for southern Bavaria to attend the birthday gathering of a longtime friend we have known for 50 years.  About 35 people, most of whom we know,…

  • Time to Soak the Cannons?

    George Rebane Today we break bread and hoist a glass with friends to celebrate the anniversaries of a number of auspicious events that happened on August 8th.  Among these was America’s signing the UN charter in 1945, and Richard Nixon resigning the Presidency in 1974.  Perhaps not so well known is the Estonian tribes’ victory…

  • Remembrances of John Wooden – RIP

    George Rebane John Wooden, a gentleman, mentor, and a teacher of character, died today aged 99.  John Wooden was also the legendary basketball coach at my alma mater UCLA, and a man revered by all who were fortunate enough to know him. My high school basketball coach Sy Korach was a friend of John Wooden,…

  • The War Ends in Liederberg

    George Rebane [This is another in a continuing series of autobiographical sketches that I have been asked to write by friends and family.  I share it with you, my readers, in the hope that these little vignettes (see 'My Story' category) of history and the American immigrant experience are of interest.  But most of all, I…

  • 1945 – The year Easter was cancelled

    George Rebane [This is another in a continuing series of autobiographical sketches that I have been asked to write by friends and family.  I share it with you, my readers, in the hope that these little vignettes of history and the American immigrant experience are of interest.  But most of all, I hope it may…

  • Christmas in Stettin, 1944

    George Rebane Sixty-five years ago we celebrated Christmas 1944 in a small uninsulated cabin the Germans called a Behelfsheim, a ‘temporary accommodation’.  The Third Reich built these to house the tide of refugees fleeing the Red Army then rapidly advancing from the east.  Our cabin was in a long row of such cabins next to…

  • Sixty Years Ago Today – 4 May 1949

    George Rebane   At first light on 4 May 1949 the USS General Harry Taylor (above) had already slipped through the Verrazano Narrows by the time my father and I joined the other men and boys on the deck of the troopship.  We all wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and the lights of…

  • Road Ruminations – 29jun08

    George Rebane We are definitely ready to head for the barn.  This is our last night in Estonia and tomorrow morning we drive to the airport, turn in our mud splattered Opel sedan, and fly to Frankfurt.  Yesterday afternoon we arrived back in Tallinn after a short drive from Muhu and Saaremaa, the country’s big…

  • Road Ruminations – 27jun08

    Jo Ann Rebane More cultural notes from Estonia.  First, it must be said that WiFi connectivity, although promised at our hotel in Pärnu, was slow to non-functional.  And here at the Pädaste Manor on Muhu Island the excellent wireless connection we had initially was knocked out by yesterday’s mid-day thunder, lightning, and hail storm (George…

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