Relating to my LIfe

I just started reading Dear John by Nicholas sparks and after a couple chapters I immediately recognized a relation to my life. John is in the Army and is stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. He was at a party with Savannah when he got approached by one of her friends, Tim, and they started talking about his job in the Army. Tim asked if he was stationed at the base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany and he said no because that was an Air Force Base. This reminded me of the summer of 2009 because I spent two weeks in July living next to the Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany and I spent most of each day there. It is really cool on base because all the buildings are made out of plaster and there are huge jets taking off and landing all day long. There are many people walking around in their camouflage uniforms and pilots in blue jumpsuits. The base is like a really small version of America because everything is in English and there are very traditional American stores like Burger King. There is a mall with an indoor rock gym, a department store, a grocery store, a gas station, schools, a library, condominiums, apartments, a gym, and so much more stuff that I can't remember it all.
To get onto the base we needed ID cards so they knew we weren't terrorists. The two weeks that I was there, Obama was in Europe so there was a huge back-up air force 1 jet parked on the base and there were the flags of all 50 states lined up on the side of the road. There were miles of training fields and forests to get the troops ready to go to Iraq. I loved being on the base and hope one day to go back.