1005 Zulu, Friday, June 14, 1978, US Embassy, Bonn Germany

It was one of those perfect summer mornings, sunny, warm with just the right amount of breeze that makes people want to skip work. But Maria is so preoccupied thinking about her first day at the Embassy that she doesn’t notice the beauty of the day. She is confident that her light blue dress is just right. It it’s modest enough for work but and shows her figure, one of her assets. She is worried more about how she had f...