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The bird Colonel top officer mountain top Greece not Joinagain, had a driver who probably lived off post because I don't remember ever seeing him. At any rate for some ungodly reason he was driving the Colonel's car by himself over at the Greek officers compound on the Greek air force base we all were stationed. He hit with the car one of the Greek Air force commanding officer's kids and I think killed him. Well the US Army rushed the driver out of the country. If some US service personnel were to hit a Greek civilian on any street anywhere, they would immediately rush him out of the country. In Greece one could buy there way out of jail or so it was said and we so looked down upon that. Of course years later come to learn all rich people are able to buy their way out of jail everywhere.
Herdworder never said what his meeting with IG entailed but I always felt guilty figuring he spilled the beans on everyone doing
ration cards, because I had convinced him it would be easier to go straight. And if he refused to name names he might have been busted back down to E2 or even one. He didn't get busted or ever say a word so I figure he squealed.
I didn't do extra work. I'm-off. I'm otta-here. I spent that whole summer, autumn and winter perusing the streets and cafes of Athens. Could have been three, four even five evenings a week. How I did love it. It was alive. Characters everywhere, and as I say, I couldn't understand a word; so anybody could be anybody. Instead of ready made, I made them what I wanted and was not simply a passer-by.
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