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Many of these GIs didn't like Greece. It was primitive. They liked their American malls and if Greece was like a flea market they preferred a new and shiny super market. However all that last army summer I would go with Ranalls who drove a little black something or other, usually four of us on Sundays would tour to some famous Greek historical site. And that is where I discovered that the Greek columns of the marble monuments, were not so much marble but easily carvable white sandstone you could scratch with one's finger nail. At the end of the day we would go to dinner in Elefsina on the water front and have a Greek style hamburger, french fries and fetta cheese. Elefsina was communist town. We once had a conversation with one of the characters there at the restaurant, and he was of the opinion that all his enemies perhaps capitalists, would need to be murdered if he were in-charge and he would do it. In my lifetime I have met two such people.
After dinner there was always a problem in adding the bill and who paid for what. Eventually I got tired of it and figured out or at least accused Ranalls of filching on the bill, which was alright since he paid for the gas, but why go thru this elaborate game of my-favor ? Let us just pay for the gas. That was the last time I was invited to tour exotic marble standing statuary.
I wore green levis, socks with leather thong sandals and tan or green short sleeve shirts when out and about in Athens where there was a sandal maker and he made my leather thong sandals and some sheep-fur lined boots I wore on my European tour about once or one night in Rome.
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