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Subject: Fond memories don't fade all that much, do they?

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Brummydave

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Date Posted: 23:15:05 04/07/05 Thu

Many times over the years I have contemplated a return to Lippstadt. I had a really good time there in the sixties. In fact, most of my best memories are from those days but, like Jim said, I think it would be a mistake. Not long after I came on-line and found this site (or it may have been 42, I can't remember which?) I read about someone who had made the pilgrimage, so to speak. They gave the impression that it was all a mistake and they wish they hadn't bothered. There was also a link to a site devoted to the redevelopment of Churchill Barracks as part of a University Campus. If you do a Google search of "Churchill Barracks, Lippstadt", you will get to a site (in Deutsche, naturlisch!) that will show the basic layout of the camp has not changed very much but all of the buildings have been remodeled into blocks of flats and various lecture halls. I also think that after thirty years, or so, very few of us would even recognise Lippy as we knew it. Better to keep the images as fresh as they are in our minds (together with our youth) as represented by all those wonderful old black and white photo's doing the rounds and, once again to steal Jim's words, drag up the sandbags, have a pint with old comrades and relive those times as we remember them. Bugger! feeling my age tonight..............

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