Americans could be detained for years in popular travel destination (China), officials warn. For all you stay-at-homers, welcome to the cold hard facts of life. I spent a total of six years, over a ten-year period, stationed in Germany, where service members were prohibited from being within 1 kilometer (⅝ of a mile) of West Germany’s border with a Communist Bloc country. This precluded the possibility of being snatched by communist agents.
