Summing up, my dad called my 27 months in Berlin “the master’s degree you didn’t get because of the draft.” I had used my leave and three-day passes in Europe.
In 1971 was sent home via Pan Am, then Amtrak on my way to Portland, Oregon from Fort Dix to NYC, to Albany, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to Portage, to Seattle and then home. It was interesting to see the changes in the country since I had left in May 1969.
-- rwr