I love this picture. This is one of over 900 slides I recently posted, showing windows into the lives of an American family living in Germany during the 1950s. In this picture it looks like daddy stopped the car to take this beautiful shot of his daughters in front of the Neustadt Weinstrasse — a large vineyard. The license plate on the car reads “U.S. Forces in Germany” and helped solve what was, for me, a bit of a mystery as to who these people were. Being an Army Brat myself I identified with the adventure of being an American child whose earliest memories are from far away lands. My memories center around Laos, and the American School of Vientiane where my sister and I went to school. I was too young to have memories as articulate as (I would imagine) those of these 2 girls, who seem to have spent  a large part of their childhood traveling overseas. You can click this picture (or click here) to see larger versions.