I bring up a little talk of Germany with my dad and now I am getting recounts of stories of when he flew the Fulda Gap to drop supplies at the border. He says when landing that was the first time he heard someone performing 99 Luftballons ... he says the lyrics felt too real in that context.

Fun bonus fact is that Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen of Nena is a very very distant relative of mine from the Fahrenkrog name on my dad's side.