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The blue dragon won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614036362093-H1HJC5EJH8X0D4HRBS9Y/blue-dragon.png Japan Dragon fight, at the Kappa Festival at Komaki’s resort, near Misawa. The blue dragon won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614036362873-4NHIRGIGWCHQQXVXMVJC/red-dragon.png Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614036363321-X4FDDJIISFRVTA19XPZ5/green-pole-rd.png Japan A parade down Green Pole Road, Misawa, Japan. Every block, we’d set down the float and run around it in a circle. I don’t remember why. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614036362313-3XC4WDHJF2KCUICQKVEP/fuji.png Japan At the top of Mt. Fuji. 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Hotel, restaurant, and probably more. It has a stunning, 360 degree views that changes as the night falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209580527-6PXXUUHHL7YG2LRPKRY6/sing-ship.jpg Singapore The iconic ship-building in Singapore. Hotel, restaurant, and probably more. 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The rest had been torn down and scattered around the world to stand as monuments to the city’s divided era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209616316-UAJXU5QGC50Z5XD0FDOQ/berlin.png Europe One of the last standing sections of the Berlin Wall. The rest had been torn down and scattered around the world to stand as monuments to the city’s divided era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209616319-RISGX5KN3I4B6B4XK468/bosnia.png Europe Bosnia-Hercegovina. I was detailed to work with an Army Civil Affairs unit supporting the UN High Commission on Refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209616987-022PWNH6S73SSJ93BH4H/news-building.png Europe This was the newspaper building in Sarajevo. They kept producing the newspaper from this building throughout the 4 years of war, which is probably why it came under such heavy attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209616965-1QC1X4OPU3CSOTAHWJ4I/moscow.png Europe A trip to Russia as a tourist. Moscow, St. Petersburg, and a few points between. This is Moscow, with a view of the Kremlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209617433-BGOQW8AQ3MC5OR4W7CT0/russia.png Europe https://www.sarahzabel.com/africa daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209598261-LZJAIW8AH38G113P39VF/gorre-island.png Africa Goree Island, Senegal. The round structure, the House of Slaves, was the last stop in Africa for a lot of people forced into slavery and taken to America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209598261-LZJAIW8AH38G113P39VF/gorre-island.png Africa Goree Island, Senegal. The round structure, the House of Slaves, was the last stop in Africa for a lot of people forced into slavery and taken to America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209597345-VWENE7R65ZPQF01Z6OY8/camel-rides.png Africa In 1997, I became a general’s aide, which involved a lot of travel to Africa. 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I saw a woman at a market wearing a beautiful dress and a fancy hat. When I got closer, though, I saw that the hat was actually a platter of carrots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209598171-UTRW4MGTEMVQEMDAWCPK/gambia.png Africa Meeting President Jammeh of The Gambia. In 1994, then-Captain Jammeh returned from a U.S. Army training course and promptly overthrew his government to establish himself as president. It was very challenging to get inside the Presidential palace on this visit. The decorations on my uniform set off the metal detector at the entry and the guards pulled my aside for a thorough wanding and pat-down. As they concentrated on that, the general’s lead security officer, a US Army Warrant Officer, caught my eye and grinned as he walked back and forth through the metal detector. It never went off, though he was armed. Instead, they were fully focused on me – the least dangerous person in the room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209597704-DC7VPJXI5G7ZGCVNUFOL/dancers-1.png Africa Dogon dancers, Mali. 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I was responsible for communications within and between our air bases in the region, and this involved a lot of travel to those bases. Occasionally, it was possible to get out and see a little of the surrounding areas as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209640611-B0AHQ21NUJ57EATCXCZP/doha.png Qatar Assigned to Al Udeid Air Base near Doha, Qatar, with US Central Command Air Forces-Forward. I was responsible for communications within and between our air bases in the region, and this involved a lot of travel to those bases. Occasionally, it was possible to get out and see a little of the surrounding areas as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209640272-6B6K7KILJZT8Y0BM816E/c-130.png Qatar C-130 aircraft went everywhere, and almost all my travel was space-available on those aircraft. Like everyone else, I usually rode with the cargo, but every once in a while I got to ride up front and see the views. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209641060-ZFUP5BYP3LFTXWX62LFL/iraq-2.png Qatar Decorations left on various buildings once used by the Iraqi military forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209640705-SRD4S7UEAFVF5YQZ6EBL/iraq-1.png Qatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209641446-LSWKMEQI082GAB66NEFP/ur-2.png Qatar The Ziggurat, in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, near Tallil Air Base, Iraq, and view from the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209641592-234HH6M69FQC49TB2B33/ur-3.png Qatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209640264-RJ5FAVDCXKGIQOA1702F/camp.png Qatar I think this was Kandahar Air Base, but it also could have been one of several in Iraq. They do look a lot alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614823308494-6CSQ6WNXSTWKG50H4HM3/KAF+Market1.JPG Qatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6025b925143b511ad9576fe4/1614209641156-8Q1672B70WGAMYZF1KOA/kaf-market-2.png Qatar Weekly market at Kandahar. It was part of the pace and practice of the area for some of the residents to fire mortars at the base on Fridays, and then there’d be a market set up right outside the base on Saturdays. 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