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Yoshika Loftin Lowe

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We began writing our own stories and soliciting our classmates, and anyone who had attended or taught at a DODDs School in November, 2010, and began to post some of the stories on our website.  

 

Our solicitation call for stories drew upon shared Brat experiences, and prompted fellow brats from Berlin, other German schools, and DODDs Faculty Members to submit their stories due to our similar experiences.  

 

Like most Brats, our time in Berlin was an incredible, unforgettable experience. Often the uniqueness (and strangeness) of our experiences are lost on the non-Brat. However, many of us have been to a reunion or hung out with other Brats since then, and discovered that we were finally talking to people who understood. These were people with a common heritage: Being a Berlin Brat.  We know that experience of living in Berlin through the Cold War is also translated several times over by our allies, German, French, British and Russian, we want their stories also.

 

 

We feel that the time we spent in Berlin was one of the most exciting and culturally enriching of our lives, and we believe that this is a piece of history that should be chronicled and preserved.

 

A portion of the proceeds for every book will be donated to the Berlin Brats Alumni Association, which sponsors reunions and gatherings, contributes to the American Overseas Historical Society and provides scholarships for brats and their progeny.

 

 

Our book will be focused on Berlin, East and West, and now one city. We will begin with a summary of the events leading up to the end of the war in Berlin, and then with each successive decade, and an overview of the history of the city and school from the 1940s to the 1990s.

 

We will have stories that paint a picture of life in Berlin as American dependents and Allied persons.

 

Our goal is to have the book ready for release by October or November 2014 in time for the 25th anniversary celebration, and our Berlin American High School Reunion.  

 

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