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Military life isolated Ancella and her family from the rest of society. It is always kind of isolated on an army post, which kept ussort of apart from the regular civilian population. Insulated, that is the way it was in many respects. You do not have to leave the army post to do anything unless you simply want to do it, so, you become a very insular, self contained community.
She became a camp follower, moving with
her family from army post to army post to be with her
husband. Her husband’s enlistment in the military
provided them with the opportunity to escape the region
in which they resided and to explore internationally and
domestically. She spent time in Germany 
during the
early 1960s. We
were oddities. They would stop
and touch us to see whether or not the color was going to
rub off , but I felt no unease at all. Her travel throughout the
south provided her with a sense of the networking between
her race. We hopscotched throughout the
south, it was like going by the Underground Railroad.
The blacks in the south gave the blacks in
the military the family that they had left behind.
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