In May of 1977 the first Star Wars movie was released in America. Several months later the hit movie came to Armed Forces theaters in West Germany, including the theater on Wiesbaden Air Base.
But many soldiers in 1-70th Armor missed the new film. We and most other combat arms soldiers were on REFORGER 1977. When we got back, the next movie was in the theaters. The only way we could watch it was in dubbed German in town. We Cold War soldiers missed Star Wars.
I did not leave Germany until November of 1979 and was not on post when the movie came back. I finally saw Star Wars in the spring of 1980 in an independent theater that was re-running the film just before the June release of the second (and best) of the the first three films, "The Empire Strikes Back."
But I did not see that film until fall in that same theater. In June of 1980 I had the worst motorcycle accident of my life. I spent two weeks in the hospital and had surgery on both legs to repair the damage from a 75mph crash.
I saw the third movie when it was released, because I was in the 68th Armor in the Army Reserve in Pennsylvania in 1983.
Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
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