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In reply to the discussion: What is your earliest memory? [View all]hobbit709
(41,694 posts)41. Going through the checkpoints of the different occupation zones in Vienna
My mother was Austrian but even as a baby I had an American passport. We lived in the American sector but most of my relatives lived in the Soviet one. Every time we crossed from one to the other had to show papers. My first passport had quite an impressive collection of stamps on the pages. This ended when I was five as Austria became a neutral country and was no longer occupied.
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I can remember being pushed in a carriage down the walkway of our house. I can also
applegrove
May 2012
#1
I vaguely remember my crib, but the memory is jumping around round robin style
angstlessk
May 2012
#31
Of my dachshund standing next to me on his hind legs at the screen door...he was taller then me. n/
HereSince1628
May 2012
#4
At age 4 begging for cash for a soda and snack from the workers at my fathers
angstlessk
May 2012
#26
I remember from the time I paid my nickle till I ran across the field in fear
angstlessk
May 2012
#29
Then there was the time before that..(still age 4) when I went to the store to purchace
angstlessk
May 2012
#28
I don't know how old I was, exactly. The memory is like a snapshot, but when I described it,
Arkansas Granny
May 2012
#40
Eating soup with the oyster crackers on top at the counter of a diner in Chicago when I was 3.
undeterred
May 2012
#43
Still in the crib. Standing up in it and seeing my dad with his arm cradling my mom.
alphafemale
May 2012
#45
My tribe went to visit a tribe of Neanderthals over the river and through the woods. nt
raccoon
May 2012
#53
My two cousins coming to live with us after their mother died, their father had died 3 years earlier
Throckmorton
May 2012
#54