BRAT and the Kids of Warriors was honored to recieve the 2018 Beverly Hills Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.
The Oberhofenkirche in Göppingen
Photo from Kyra Rosskopf. This church is similar to the one discribed in BRAT that the McMasters would go to in Göppingen some sunday mornings. It is the one the Major occasionally took us to.
read more4th Quartermaster Battalion Marching at Cooke Barracks
Photo from Bobby Raines. Mrs McMasters with her white glove treatment must have loved to see these troops marching by in their spit shined boots, yellow ascots, and white gloves. Now we know where she might have gotten her white glove. You also have to wonder if the platoon sargent inspects their weapons with his white golves on. Pitty the poor troup who gets the sargents glove smugged up–no three day pass for...
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License Plate form the Soviet Military Mission
When I was a lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt we were issued these cards. They showed us what the license plates looked like on vehicles belonging to the Soviet Military Mission. Many of the Russians stationed with that mission were presumed to be spies, so they had us call in right away if we spotted them. That was one way they kept tabs on the bad guys. The same cards were issued to militaty personnel on Cooke Barracks asking them to keep an eye out for Russians.
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The German American Week Stein
Each year there was a special stein made to commemorate the occasion.
read moreGerman Officials in the Big White Tent
At German American Week, Jack and the brats meet a number of local German officials in the big white tent. The most important of which was the Mayor of Göppingen.
read moreThe Stuttgarter Blimp flies over the German American celebration
Photo from Horst W. Müller
read more4th Armored Division on Parade
Photo from Horst W. Müller. Just like in the book Brat: Kids of Warriors the 4th Armored Division always held a big parade for the Germans during German American...
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I am a military brat—and I say that with great pride.