You can’t tell me he isn’t behind this whole damn mess. #ColdWarKid

#ColdWarKid here.
I grew up on Canadian military bases here and in West Germany. There are multiple thousands of us "army brats." On-base schools (and churches, rec centres etc.) were the norm.
Not condoning or commenting on today's events but back then, everyone knew our homes were ICBM targets.

Great article that brings back warm tween-age memories of zipping around Black Forest villages in West Germany on a Moby as a #ColdWarKid in the early 70s.
Montreal may be hospitable for mopeds and scooters, but you take your life in your hands in #autowah given the lousy drivers and roads here.

I went to school in (then) West Germany

At least twice a year we'd get let out of class early because they found an unexploded bomb near by

#ColdWarKid problems

Black and white photo, looking up at the bow of the Sea Shadow, a formerly secret Navy stealth ship. It is out of the water on a covered dry dock.

Color photo looking down over the bow of the Sea Shadow, as it sits inside a covered dry dock.

Black and white photo looking over the port side bow of the Sea Shadow, as it sits inside a covered dry dock.

Photo showing the side of the Sea Shadow, with the name of the ship printed in block letters.

Seeing the Sea Shadow for the first time, will forever be one of the coolest moments in my maritime career.

Waking onto the HMB, with the dust covered ship in the background felt like something out of a movie.
#maritime #history #coldwarkid #seashadow #navy #ships #shipspotting

Are American tourists easily distinguishable from Canadians? Let the debate begin | CNN Travel pros weigh in on the differences between travelers from the United States and Canada. There are definitely distinctions, they say.

As a #ColdWarKid in Europe in the 70s, I took pride in a maple leaf flag being sewn into my jean jacket while giving flag-jacking Yank hippies a side-eye for misappropriating them on their backpacks.
Flash forward and Canada's Dad @brittlestar.com pops up in this piece.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/t...

When I was a #ColdWarKid air cadet in West Germany, we had one of these Canadair T-Birds (minus engine) in the cadet lounge in the basement of our high school.
Lunch hour cockpit time was the closest I ever got to flying one.

Cool reminder of being a #ColdWarKid. I had the missile launching kit. Wonder what became of it.

The Viscount Gort! There's an old memory. We stayed there a few times transiting east and west on my father's various military postings. Seemed to be his favourite hotel on government rates.
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Close enough that Canadian dependents of our NATO-committed soldiers in West Germany were about to be repatriated home. (I was one of them.)
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See what I mean? Amazing how much effort it took to achieve that. Reminds me a bit of being a #ColdWarKid in West Germany in the 60s and seeing the post-war recovery up close. The Marshall Plan was miraculous.

I'm a #ColdWarKid born in 🇨🇦 months ahead of my Dad's NATO posting to West Germany. Zero citizenship issues for me, but not others from my generation born to serving CAF personnel overseas. They had an uphill battle with the federal government, but at least no threat of being expelled to a gulag.

Nice! Had it been an earlier tube-driven Tekefunken hi-fi, I would not have hesitated.
My parents brought back an early 60s one from a NATO posting to West Germany.
T'was a monster sound machine for Dad's military march music.
Alas, lost in time due to other transatlantic postings.
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Makes me wonder if the Canadian government finally fixed the loophole that left military kids born to Canadian Forces families abroad without Canadian citizenship. IIRC there was some legislation to resolve this but might've been lost on the order paper some time ago.
Any news?
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I may be disappeared for having Edward Gory tattoos, but I take solace in knowing that none of this ever ends well for these people. (As a Gen-xer, I morn for all of human history, as well) #coldWarKid

#ColdWarKid #Shout

Well, god damn it if I don't feel old now. Mine was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. #coldwarkid

But I so want it to bang noisily and fervently horizontally before my eyes!

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These bogus petitions are really pernicious propaganda.
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TFW your kid calls from Tashkent to ask about the finer points of conversational Russian…which you learned in high school
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