I was stationed in Belgium and on vacation in London. It was surreal....ended up helping prep our Detachment HQ at Pruem Air Station in Germany for use as a potential refugee camp. Very strange days for someone who grew up expecting to go to war in Europe....
slow azzz 50's era cars, so odd that a technologically advanced west germany and the east was like walking out of the 50's at best. Westerners hated them. But it was like winning the lottery for the east. Freedom at last to visit relatives they hadn't seen in decades. C co. 2/4 INF Heilbronn, FRG