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Baby Boomers

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shanti

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22. i do remember tachikowa!
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 07:27 PM
Jan 2012

we called it "tachi". it was very close to yokota. i'm a little older than you (1955), and definitely have memories of japan...we lived off base for a year or so, then moved onto base housing (quonset huts).

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