Serving America Abroad

The Foreign Service Retirees Association of Florida (FSRA) celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2002. Its approximately 800 members served its country all around the world for much of their adult lives. They worked as secretaries, attaches, technicians, consuls, ministers, ambassadors and so forth with their spouses and families in American Embassies and Consulates in over 150 countries. Their lives were extremely rich, filled with fun, fear, excitement, and adventure as they served the country they loved so deeply. These are their own true stories of exciting, funny, scary, and always interesting lives abroad.