02 November 2025

Happy Holidays 2025


 Greetings all.

It feels like a lifetime has past since I last posted. Well, here we are now into the 2025 Holiday Season.

With that, we all know the new year begin in just a scant 2 months. Time surely does fly. 

I do hope and wish each and everyone of you the very best this holiday season as well as the great health and prosperity in 2026. 

Please take care of yourselves and each other. This does come from the heart because when 2025 began the only thing on my mind was me getting better but instead the one thing I never would have imagined, happened; the loss of one of a best friend.  Army Buddy from Berlin. On this day, forty years ago, I met him. 

That is life. That is change. That is what makes of this and all of us unique.  

Wishing You The Best and Holiday Cheers,
 -Dave  

21 July 2025

JULY 2025

 It's been one hell of a Summer. I do hope you are doing better. 

If you have been following along on the Facebook page you know the deal.

If not or do not know the address, please consider joining us there at
http://facebook.com/berlinbrigade 

 

All The Way. 

30 May 2025

30 MAY 2025 - Update

 Just a brief update.

The email addresses belonging to "@berlinbrigade.com" are now closed.  

I am still holding on to the dot com itself as the intention remains to bring it back. For now, I thank you for your continued support during this time.

 

Thank you,
Dave 

04 March 2025

4 MARCH 2025 - CHECKING IN & WE KEEP ON ROLLIN'

Good Day.

Things are happening all over the world and that means things are still happening here at the BerlinBrigade dotcom World Headquarters. One of those things is that the email address is still open and our good friend, John Michael Karnatz, reached out. 

Not only was he checking in but he wanted to share his latest contribution to ROCK~N~ROLL!

WE KEEP ON ROLLIN'

Check out the new track from our favorite  ROCK~N~ROLL star on his YouTube channel:

 

Stay Cool and See you at the County Line!

21 January 2025

21 JANUARY 2025 - Post Website Era Begins

 Greetings.

As mentioned, I will be using this blog to keep the dot com up and running. While it will never replace the full version of the BerlinBrigade(dot)com website, I will continue to post periodic updates just to let you know that I have not forgotten about you. 

Up until now, I have been trying to figure out what to say or post here. What and How much to share? But as I sat back and thought about it, not much has changed since January 5th. Of course, with the exception of a NEW President of the United States, a new Commander-in-Chief. 

While he was President eight years ago, this time things are different. The world has grown and changed since the inauguration back in 2016. Now we look forward to a new future. A future that promises so much. Whether you like the individual or not, just like many of us that served with have to respect the office and the follow the order of the Commander-in-Chief.

I believe in the United States. I believe in the direction we, as a nation, are going. We can take it one step at a time. Together, we can make it better so long as, all of us are willing to put in the work.

Let's get to work.

-Dave

05 January 2025

5 JANUARY 2025 - BERLINBRIGADE.COM

 Happy New Year.

For the time being, this is the new home of the BerlinBrigade.com website. Over the past several years this was the OFFICIAL BLOG of the website, now it will take on an entirely new role. 

As I had previously mentioned, it is my intention to bring the website back. However, now as life is progressing it looks like my original plan of Summer 2025 will be moved to Summer 2026. Other priorities must be addressed and with that comes directing my complete attention to getting to a resolution of those issues and concerns.

I thank you again for giving me this opportunity.

Talk to you soon,
David

22 August 2024

22 August 2024 - Checking In After Wandering Aimlessly - The Grunewald


Greetings,

Thank you for stopping by. I know it has been a long time. Almost 1 year and 9 months since the last post. It certainly has been an interesting period. Life is funny that way. Life moves on and if we are not onboard for the ride we get lost. Which in and of itself, getting lost is not a good thing.

Getting lost gives one an opportunity to travel to the unknown, the unfamiliar. Thus, in this case getting lost led to a distraction that was both good and bad. Bad in that it took me away from the website and all that was associated with that. It was good in that it allowed me time to re-evaluate where I had been and where I am going with the website and where I am going to take myself.

Let me fill in some gaps. For almost the entire year that was 2023, I was enrolled in an accelerated Masters Program, that took time, effort, dedication, and focus but I got it done. ALL THE WAY!

Then when 2024 started and I found myself sitting with two Masters degrees, asking myself what next? I then a plan for what's next was formed, and now it is being put into play. What was next involves some of the modifications you now find on the website (www.BerlinBrigade.com) with more to come. Definitely more to come.

Then as I continued wandering through the digital forest I was smacked right in the face from a tree branch known as this blog. November 9, 2022 was the date of the last entry. It was time to get back to this, well at least one new post to let you know that I have not forgotten about you.

What will be this blog's new mission or vision be? Simple. It will become more than just as a public address system to let you know when changes have been made on the website. It will be more than just reflections on the past.

I do promise you this blog will NOT become a vehicle to talk politics. My views on politics are my views. The same goes for medicine and religion. I have my beliefs and no one will change them. Just as I will never attempt to try to change your way of thinking. 

RESPECT. I will respect you and your views on those subjects (Politics, Religion, & Medicine) and I do expect you to RESPECT me enough to not try to challenge or change my beliefs. You will lose. And for those individuals that have shown themselves to vehemently try to impose their views and expectations on me, you may think you know me, I promise you that you do not. 

Now back to the issue at hand as I continue to wander through through this digital "Grunewald" let us see what else I find and what I do with it.

I will be back soon. Until then please visit the Berlin Brigade website, check the registry. read the stories, look at the galleries. Then come back for more.

Thank you,
David
Founder and Webmast

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AUF DEUTSCH

Danke, dass Sie vorbeigeschaut haben. Ich weiß, es ist lange her. Fast 1 Jahr und 9 Monate seit dem letzten Beitrag. Es war auf jeden Fall eine interessante Zeit. Das Leben ist in dieser Hinsicht komisch. Das Leben geht weiter und wenn wir nicht mit an Bord sind, verlieren wir uns. Und an und für sich ist es nicht gut, sich zu verlaufen.

Sich zu verlaufen gibt einem die Möglichkeit, ins Unbekannte, ins Ungewohnte zu reisen. In diesem Fall führte das Verlorengehen also zu einer Ablenkung, die sowohl gut als auch schlecht war. Schlecht in dem Sinne, dass es mich von der Website und allem, was damit verbunden war, wegführte. Es war gut in dem Sinne, dass es mir Zeit gab, neu zu bewerten, wo ich gewesen war und wohin ich mit der Website gehe und wohin ich mich selbst führen werde.

Lassen Sie mich einige Lücken füllen. Fast das gesamte Jahr 2023 war ich in einem beschleunigten Masterprogramm eingeschrieben, das Zeit, Mühe, Hingabe und Konzentration erforderte, aber ich habe es geschafft. ALL THE WAY! 

Dann, als das Jahr 2024 begann und ich mit zwei Master-Abschlüssen da saß und mich fragte, was als Nächstes kommen würde, wurde ein Plan für das, was als Nächstes kommen würde, ausgearbeitet, und jetzt wird er in die Tat umgesetzt. Was als Nächstes kam, beinhaltete einige der Änderungen, die Sie jetzt auf der Website (www.BerlinBrigade.com) finden, und es werden noch mehr folgen. Definitiv noch mehr.

Als ich dann weiter durch den digitalen Wald wanderte, schlug mir ein Ast namens dieser Blog direkt ins Gesicht. Der 9. November 2022 war das Datum des letzten Eintrags. Es war Zeit, darauf zurückzukommen, nun ja, zumindest einen neuen Beitrag, um Sie wissen zu lassen, dass ich Sie nicht vergessen habe.

Was wird die neue Mission oder Vision dieses Blogs sein? Ganz einfach. Er wird mehr als nur eine Lautsprecheranlage sein, die Sie über Änderungen auf der Website informiert. Er wird mehr sein als nur Reflexionen über die Vergangenheit.

Ich verspreche Ihnen, dass dieser Blog KEIN Mittel zum Reden über Politik werden wird. Meine Ansichten zur Politik sind meine Ansichten. Dasselbe gilt für Medizin und Religion. Ich habe meine Überzeugungen und niemand wird sie ändern. Genauso wie ich nie versuchen werde, Ihre Denkweise zu ändern.

RESPEKT. Ich werde Sie und Ihre Ansichten zu diesen Themen (Politik, Religion und Medizin) respektieren und ich erwarte von Ihnen, dass Sie mich genug RESPEKTIEREN, um nicht zu versuchen, meine Überzeugungen in Frage zu stellen oder zu ändern. Sie werden verlieren. Und an die Personen, die vehement versucht haben, mir ihre Ansichten und Erwartungen aufzuzwingen: Sie denken vielleicht, Sie kennen mich, aber das verspreche ich Ihnen.

Nun zurück zum eigentlichen Thema, während ich weiter durch diesen digitalen „Grunewald“ streifen werde. Lassen Sie uns sehen, was ich sonst noch finde und was ich damit mache.      

Ich bin bald zurück. Bis dahin besuchen Sie bitte die Website der Berlin Brigade, sehen Sie sich das Register an. Lesen Sie die Geschichten, sehen Sie sich die Galerien an. Kommen Sie dann wieder, um mehr zu erfahren.

Vielen Dank,
David
Gründer und Webmaster