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Heather: I’m Heather. I’m the oldest of the Smith siblings. I was born in 1964, in Germany, where my Dad was part of Canadian NATO forces. My sense of myself as a “base brat” is central to my identity. When I tell people where I was born, I inevitably add that the hospital I was born in was a remodeled S.S. barracks on a British Army base that still had the gun racks in the hallway (not that I would remember this of course, but it is part of my personal mythology). I lived on military bases until I was eight, then we moved off base when posted to Ottawa. In 1974, we moved to the City of St. Albert, just outside of Edmonton and we were never posted again (although there had been discussions of a posting to Wainwright when I was 14, this posting never transpired).
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© 2011 J. Marshall Beier
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Smith, H.A., Smith, M.P., Smith, C.R. (2011). Everyday Stories of a Militarized Childhood. In: Beier, J.M. (eds) The Militarization of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002143_13
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