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Article: Changes in Europe: by 2008 some 8,500 1st Armd. Div. soldiers and family members will be relocated, perhaps to Grafenwohr, the U.S. Army's premier training site in Germany.(United States Army)(includes related article "Care packages")
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- Soldiers Magazine
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- April 1, 2004
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IN Bad Nauheim, Germany--home to Elvis Presley from 1958 to 1960 while he was stationed at Ray Barracks in nearby Friedberg--local city mayors gave a party for the families of Soldiers of the 1st Armored Division who were deployed to Iraq.
"Realizing the difficulty that many families are experiencing with their Soldiers deployed, we wanted to do something as a show of solidarity," said Bad Nauheim's mayor, Bernd Rohde.
"I've been the mayor here since 1981, and it's always been a great pleasure for me to be a part of the close German-American community," he said.
Similar events to show the support of the German people for American Soldiers in ...