As soldiers, often our lives were dominated by the "here and now",
the next event on the training schedule, the ARTEP the following
week, the start of gunnery training and then the AGI. Our concern
for the past was limited to After Action Reports which we hoped
would serve as guideposts to those who followed to learn from our
experiences. And so, as the thousands of troopers who passed
through the cavalry in Bad Kissingen arrived, performed their duty
and departed, often times, the events that were "big new" for one
group of soldiers rapidly slipped into the past as fresh faces
arrived to meet new challenges.
Through barracks lore and stories shared over a beer, some events
lived on for a few years but gradually, the detail, circumstance and
significance were lost. Through the below listed stories, built as
much as possible on the first hand accounts of those troopers
directly involved, we recapture some of those moments that reflect
who we were and what we did when the Americans came to Bad Kissingen. All
of the stories add to the historical understanding of the American
experience at Daley, a few are
funny and a few are tragic.
