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Greetings from Wuerzburg Germany.
Apr 17 2007, 9:06 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 17 2007, 9:06 AM EDT
Greetings to all my friends from the former Agape Coffee House in Emery Barracks in Wuerzburg. I was leading the youthcenter in Mariannhill Mission across from the American Army Hospital in Wuerzburg. We had meetings together with German Jesus People in the Upper Room of the Mariannhill Mission Wuerzburg. Our song was: He is Lord!!! Jesus Christ is Lord!!!
Yours Brother in Christ Jesus Barnabas called John Barnabas (Pater Barnabas Stephan CMM) 6  out of 6 found this valuable. Do you?    
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Apr 23 2007, 8:23 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 23 2007, 8:23 AM EDT
Hello Barnabas! Greetings from El Paso!
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Dec 7 2008, 12:31 AM EST | Post edited: Dec 7 2008, 12:31 AM EST
Hello, Father Barnabus - In 1971, I was privileged to meet your acquaintance as a young Army medic assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital in Wuerzburg. I appreciated your kindness in allowing me & several friends to live in the upper rooms of the Marianhill Mission. We spent many hours sharing stories about our respective Christian faith walks...yours from a Catholic perspective; mine from a Mormon viewpoint. Your kind, gentle spirit impressed me, then, and has had a lasting impression upon me ever since. Now, some 37 years later, I was very happy to see your picture posted on this website. You look happy, healthy, and at peace...but, much different without your flowing beard! I reside in a small town just north of Seattle, Washington, now having recently retired from a lifetime of healthcare service. My wife, Patty, and I enjoy our family of five children and five grandchildren. We live on a small farm where we raise Black Angus cattle and tend to our organic gardens and orchards. It brings us great joy in sharing this way of life with our family and friends...and believe it strengthens our relationship with our Lord & Savior. I hope this note reaches you; it would be nice to hear from you.
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Hal_Carson
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Jan 29 2009, 8:37 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 29 2009, 8:37 PM EST
I just joined the Agage Coffee House, where I posted in brief my joyous time spent with you in Wuerzburg at Mariannhill. Please know that Cheryl and I visited Wuerzburg twice in attempts to find you, but too much time had passed - I could not remember the streets I once knew so well. I did manage to leave a short note for Ilana's mother, who was still alive at the time of our second trip to Wuerzburg. I am sorry I missed you those times ... hopefully there will be a third trip when I can introduce you and Cheryl to one another. I speak of you to her often. Do you find this valuable?    

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Jan 30 2009, 1:24 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 30 2009, 1:24 PM EST
I am sure we met Hal. Gosh, what a great time to be a young person in the Army and be in Wuerzburg. My daughter was born there across the street from Barnabus' Mission, he dedicated her to the Lord - and she is going back there next month with her husband to visit. Bless you - Dan Brake Do you find this valuable?    

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Jan 31 2009, 9:01 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 31 2009, 9:01 AM EST
"I am sure we met Hal. Gosh, what a great time to be a young person in the Army and be in Wuerzburg. My daughter was born there across the street from Barnabus' Mission, he dedicated her to the Lord - and she is going back there next month with her husband to visit. Bless you - Dan Brake"
For most of my tour I was working at the Personnel Services Division in Reports Control on the hill until I got cross-wise of the reenlistment E-9 for allowing one of his catches to get out of his reenlistment on a technicality. The young soldier said he had been pressured into reenlisting. After that I asked for a transfer to the 3d S & T Battalion which had given me an award for the service I had given them while working in PSD's Reports Control. I was just doing my job, but it was appreciated and the Battalion E-8 found me a job as the company clerk for Company B. You probably would have met me for certain if you were there when I was - I was one of the only three inprocessing clerks for the entire Division, and we worked together. As part of our duties, we checked the Personnel Records jackets to make certain there was nothing important missing - especially payroll records and orders for promotions. We also snagged anyone with any time spent in college to work with us in PSD ... keeping people's military records straight was considered so important, headquarters immediately cut orders for anyone we could recommend for PSD. There was always someone due to rotate to the U.S. or who had volunteered for a tour in Vietnam, and we needed time to train people. If I immediately liked someone, I consulted with my co-workers to see if we all agreed that person should be brought into Reports Control for training to work with us - we tried always to be cross-trained to help one another. God bless your family abundantly, as my priest always says, and be with your daughter and her husband in Europe. Do you find this valuable?    

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Feb 5 2009, 10:38 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 5 2009, 10:38 PM EST
I was with 69th ADA Bn, as a chaplain assistant, but I worked full time at the Agape Coffee House for almost three years - I believe it was 1971 - 73; then transferred to Ft Dix, NJ, as a chaplain assistant and left the Army in December '76. Do you find this valuable?    

Hal_Carson
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Feb 6 2009, 6:30 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 6 2009, 6:30 AM EST
"I was with 69th ADA Bn, as a chaplain assistant, but I worked full time at the Agape Coffee House for almost three years - I believe it was 1971 - 73; then transferred to Ft Dix, NJ, as a chaplain assistant and left the Army in December '76. "
I think I read everything there was to read at the website. From that I learned that it was a pretty rough time for many of the men and the women returning from Vietnam. I guess that was why I was flooded with so many 1049's requesting reassignment to Vietnam. The people I helped fill out the paperwork seemed fine ... they said they just wanted to get back there because the job wasn't finished. I do know that a very close friend who never would have gotten into drugs under any other circumstances did so in Vietnam. First he volunteered to go to Vietnam. Next he volunteered to be a door gunner. Right after that he told me he had been introduced to drugs as a way to get away from the horrors of war for a while with some of the people he had gotten really close to. It is social drinking taken to the next level. Do you find this valuable?    

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Feb 12 2009, 2:46 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 12 2009, 2:46 PM EST
"I was with 69th ADA Bn, as a chaplain assistant, but I worked full time at the Agape Coffee House for almost three years - I believe it was 1971 - 73; then transferred to Ft Dix, NJ, as a chaplain assistant and left the Army in December '76. "
What was your name there in Emery? 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

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Feb 20 2009, 3:10 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2009, 3:10 PM EST
You help me find an apartment during the time period of '70-1971...did Capt. Autry have more than one assist.?
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SteveCobb
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11. RE: Greetings from Wuerzburg Germany.
Mar 24 2009, 1:25 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 24 2009, 1:25 PM EDT
"I was with 69th ADA Bn, as a chaplain assistant, but I worked full time at the Agape Coffee House for almost three years - I believe it was 1971 - 73; then transferred to Ft Dix, NJ, as a chaplain assistant and left the Army in December '76. "
Were you the one who help me find an apartment around the time of October 1970. I think you were a tall person with light blond hair? please post a reply here.

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12. RE: Greetings from Wuerzburg Germany.
Mar 25 2009, 10:22 AM EDT | Post edited: Mar 25 2009, 10:22 AM EDT
Could have been Steve - back before I was grey :-) Yes, Jerry had more than one assistant. He had not only assistants but volunteers ... back then, gosh, trying to remember??? But Jerry was great at deligating, that was his gift I think, and he could round up soldiers at the drop of a hat as we had so much respect for him, knowing he would do "whatever it takes" to care for the rank and file GI. Do you find this valuable?    

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13. RE: Greetings from Wuerzburg Germany.
Mar 25 2009, 6:34 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 25 2009, 6:34 PM EDT
"Could have been Steve - back before I was grey :-) Yes, Jerry had more than one assistant. He had not only assistants but volunteers ... back then, gosh, trying to remember??? But Jerry was great at deligating, that was his gift I think, and he could round up soldiers at the drop of a hat as we had so much respect for him, knowing he would do "whatever it takes" to care for the rank and file GI."
I'm sure he was Chap. Autry's assistant probably from May 1970 to May 1971. Sure would be nice to know who this person was, if I remember correctly I was stationed in the 69th Group Hdq. building and he might have been living there in the barracks at the time. It's been so long ago, it's hard to remember. Do you find this valuable?