Reply #107: Well, I sorta DID leave about 30 years ago (after a fashion) for Germany

[DFW]

I had this job, and my girldfriend told me that she was glad I had this cool job, but she
couldn't/wouldn't leave Germany to live in America. Her dad was disabled due to getting
his leg blown off at Stalingrad, and she just didn't want to be so far from her family.
My immediate superior was smart enough and flexible enough to offer me a position over
here, which developed into station chief for Europe. I keep my Texas residence, even though
I'm rarely there much (in DC or NY or MA just as often when Stateside). But I'm overseas
more than I am home. Our daughters choose (for now) to live in America, although they grew up
as Germans here in the Rheinland.

As for the why, well, I'm the in the turban. The why is standing next to me with her hand on
my arm. If that's not enough of a "why," then a long drawn-out wordy explanation isn't going
to shed much more light on the answer than I've laid out already.........


And now, 29 years after that photo was taken, there are still no regrets: