CookeBarracks.com

Welcome to CookeBarracks.com! A recent poll confirmed what most of us familiar with Cooke Barracks always thought: That is, 79% of the 242 respondents said their time while stationed at Cooke was either "great" or "the best"; 14% reported "good". Only 7% reported "not so good", or "not good". Clearly, Cooke Barracks was a magical place and, perhaps, that's why so many people visit CookeBarracks.com. CookeBarracks.com was born October 2002 and is responsible for uniting many, many people separated years ago.

Our Mission Statement: To unite friends and share memories with those who were part of U.S. Army Cooke Barracks near Goeppingen, Germany. In support of our mission, please find within:

• a guestbook roster for everyone to sign and share their favorite Cooke Barracks memory. With a little luck, a long-lost friend might type "cookebarracks.com" into their web browser, find your entry, and another reunion will be made. It actually happens here a lot and more often than you read about in the guestbook, too! Even if you don't have a favorite memory to share, please sign the guestbook to include your full name and the unit and dates you served. The guestbook is our only "roster database" for long lost friends to search for each other. Lost friends will be able to find you by "Control F" (search feature) the guestbooks (there's one for each year). Please, no advertising.

  Please note the current guestbook (link above) includes all entries from 1/1/06 to date. But it will be easier for you to view the archived guestbooks (below) to see all entries for a complete year on a single page for the years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Otherwise, you'll just see the same entries in the current guestbook, but viewed at 50 entries to a page (versus a full year to a page).

• a message board for everyone to chat about those great times. Don't forget to sign the Guestbook, too . Begin a new discussion by clicking on the "New Topic" link near the top and right of the page. To respond to an existing discussion, click on the "Message Subject" and, then, "Reply", also in the top right area of the page. Please, no commercial advertising and no "visit my site" ads. Registration required for this one (see why).

• a photo album; our jewel. Once you click the "photo album" link (to the left), you'll see a page of photos. Each photo represents an album containing up to 100 photos. Click on any of those photos to access the associated album. If you click on any photo inside the album you'll see the option to add a public comment to that photo. Your comments are the frosting! The photo hosting provider (Google) requires you sign up for a free Google account to add photo comments. Signing up takes about 30 seconds. It will mean a great deal to me and everyone here if you will spend the 30 seconds to acquire your free Google account so you can add valuable comments to the photos.

Your photo contributions will be greatly appreciated! Please contact me to obtain the email address to send photos for posting to the photo albums. If necessary, you can postal mail your photos to me and I'll scan them and upload them on your behalf (but it will be very much appreciated if you can try to arrange for a friend to scan your photos for you (so I don't become a biological appendage of my scanner). Thank you!!

David Wisniewski, Founder, CookeBarracks.com (385th MP Bn, 9/70 - 3/71) 18699 Holly Road, Fiddletown, CA 95629 Contact me EVERY donation is a blessing and receives a personal thank you from me. Anything else would be unacceptable. If you did not receive my personal "thank you", it may be that my email was redirected to your "spam" or "trash" email box. I can't thank you enough for your generosity.

Your donation helps offset time and expense to keep this site running (since 2002) and is greatly appreciated ! Thank you very much!!