The Foreign Service Journal, April 2015

the Foreign Service journal | April 2015 9 Romania Revisited Although I never met Kiki Skagen Munshi during our respective Foreign Service careers, I was delighted to dis- cover her long experience in Romania courtesy of your November 2014 issue, in which her excellent novel, Whisper in Bucharest , was reviewed. My twin sister and I were born in Bucharest when King Carol II was on the Romanian throne and my father, Sheldon T. Mills, was a second secretary at the American legation. I plan to return to Romania this sum- mer and have already contacted the author for guidance. Ms. Munshi responded immedi- ately to my mes- sage and has been extremely helpful. Best of all, since she returns to the coun- try often, we hope to meet in Bucharest during my visit. My sincere thanks to the FSJ for being the catalyst for a new friendship. Linda Mills Sipprelle FSO, retired Princeton, N.J. Reaching Out to Military Vets Thank you, AFSA, for your recent out- reach to military veterans in the Foreign Service. In my 33 years of combined gov- ernment service (military, Civil Service and Foreign Service), I don’t recall such an initiative. Outstanding! I believe it’s fair to say that those of us who have been members of the For- eign Service and the armed forces view the nexus of those two institutions as a joint endeavor to make “peace through strength” a meaningful component of