On the Memoir, Interrupted Journeys: A Memoir of an Army Brat

Barbara Towers is an Army Brat. She experiences events which most Army Brats have such as traveling to foreign countries, dealing with members of the servant class in these countries, and changing schools, neighborhoods and friends. Barbara lived in the tumultuous time following World War II with the occupation of Germany by Allied forces. There was much resent of the occupying allies during that period. Both German and Japanese citizens often took it out on their occupiers by stealing from the foreigners on their soils, bullying their children at the school bus stops (Barbara and her American friends experienced this) or complaining to the Military Police about service families. Once German residents of Heidelberg fussed about Barbara's German shepherd attacking one of their teenage boys who had broken into her house and stolen a Sunbeam mix master from her mother. Not only did Barbara's family have to pay the doctor bill for the lad,  but they also had to purchase a new pair of pants for him to wear and get the old pair mended at the tailor shop. Nevertheless, this teenage boy continued to harass Barbara and other American kids at the school bus stop and take things from them. Barbara was only nine years old at the time, a lot younger than this sixteen-year-old German kid. The American government encourages all Americans to maintain cordial relations with foreigners while they are living in their countries, regardless of how they are being treated by the natives.   This is a good philosophy to maintain, even though it sometimes seems unfair.