tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082706975306359729.post61874880981211954..comments2013-08-30T08:17:05.375-07:00Comments on Squarer Pegs, Rounder Holes: Hollywood's Actually Got Me ThinkingSquarer Pegs, Rounder Holeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05984402396917048173noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082706975306359729.post-45690245673876622942011-11-02T12:05:44.280-07:002011-11-02T12:05:44.280-07:00This is an interesting summary of your experience....This is an interesting summary of your experience. I believe, with a few name changes, that many brats can identify readily with it. I have my favorite teachers too. Most I encountered at Stuttgart.<br /><br />Place played a significant role for me. The Monterey Bay area in the wake of the "cultural" experience of the '60s presented its music and radical groups and I remember most clearly the views of the bay. In Germany I worked with Englishmen, Pakistanis, Irish truck drivers and Germans who lived the history I had read about. I walked on Roman roads, I stood by grave mounds over 2500 years old. I routinely picked up a snack in a building that was older than the US. Back in the states there was work and the Saturday night cruising of a main drag somewhere.<br /><br />The return was a shock.<br /><br />Since that time I've come to realize some of the history that I've lived a bit of in my own country. I have chopped wood, cut fence post, strung barbed wire, butchered or picked the food I would eat. I've actually helped drive a herd of cattle. I've also square danced and enjoyed the conversation at a local coffee shop full of good ol' boys.<br /><br />But, I remember clearly the conversation that died when I told an acquaintance that I had actually stood on a real castle wall in the moonlight. I think it may have ended a fantasy.Rick Terrynoreply@blogger.com