Würzburg American Hospital shuts doors

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Würzburg American Hospital shuts doors
By Mark St.Clair, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, October 21, 2007


WÜRZBURG, Germany

After serving the nearby military communities since the 1940s, the Würzburg American Hospital officially shut its doors Friday.

During a ceremony marking the end of an era for Army medicine in Bavaria, the flag was lowered one final time.

For some of the assembled soldiers and German and American civilians, it was a hard sight.

“It wasn’t that hard for me today, but I couldn’t look when they took the flag down,” said Ingrid Purucker, who served at the hospital as a property book manager for 42 years.

What was hard, Purucker said, was watching the drawdown of troops and services, and coming to find lights off and doors shut.

“It was the worst part of my life,” she said. “It’s still not easy.”


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uhc comment: I was stationed in Würzburg in the early 70s.