Today’s comic strip brought back memories of Germany in 1986. I was a nineteen-year-old PFC stationed in a country where I could legally drink alcohol. My barracks was in Kitzingen, and the thing to do there for a good time was to hop on the train to Frankfurt and hit the red-light district. So, I tagged along with a group of soldiers doing just that.
I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania and Missouri, so the things I saw when I got off the train were almost too much for me to handle. There were nude women everywhere you looked, and I was still a virgin. It’s a good thing I was not alone.
You go to these places in groups so your buddies can keep you out of trouble. If I had gone alone, I probably would have married a stripper. In the ten years I was in the army I knew several dudes who did.
-Dennis
