The age of everything in Bamberg and in Germany is one of the things that struck me as well. I can still remember sitting down at a guest house and drinking a beer that they had been brewing for 300 years, and the USA for not even 200 years old in 1971. Just blew my mind. But I fell in love with…
I arrived in Bamberg in 1976. We were celebrating our 200th Anniversary as a nation. They were celebrating their 1,000th Anniversary as a town. I was, to say the least, wiser that day of history and my purpose in being there serving NATO.