| I lots of times have done countdowns when I was going somewhere else (and I knew it). When I had worked at Jewel, I had the countdown to active Army duty on my name-tag; they made me take it off after awhile. In Germany, I posted my 'T-minus [number] of days and nights' that I had left before leaving the country, posted them on my window. For the last ten days or so, I attached little rhymes to them. Here's a sampling of those. |
Sunrise onto Drake Kaserne, from the window of my barracks room
The Countdown
The caboose drawing is made up of sixteen sheets of regular paper. That's about the only way I could draw something that big without screwing it up. After returning from Germany and taking some more leave time, I would be headed for the 101st Airborne Division in Kentucky/Tennessee. One quickie sidebar I'd like to relate: We had Polish displaced workers on our base, and they ate at our mess hall. Because I knew German by my second year, I went and talked to them. They could speak some, and I mentioned my grandparents being from Lithuania. Then I said, "Eine Zeit kommt, Wieder Frei!" They kind of looked at me like I had just said the most unbelievable thing. But this was 1987, and changes were happening (though we didn't know about them then) at that same time.
