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Re: Europe Trip

To: Bruce McGuire <CV_Bruce@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Europe Trip
From: bmounce@impop.bellatlantic.net
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:24:35 -0500
My dad told me about going to stare at the German POWs in the Philadephia armory
during WWII, fascinating for a young teenager, I'm sure.  It does seem a long 
way
to tote them, though.  Bill

Bruce McGuire wrote:

> This seems to be a bit of American WWII history that has not been well
> taught.
> My Grandfather had German and Italian POW's working on his cotton farm in
> Arizona during the war. He told me many times about this as we'd drive by the
> old camp on our way hunting or fishing, but none of my teachers growing up
> seemed to know about this chapter in history.
>
> Bruce McGuire
>
> Larry Paulick wrote:
>
> > Just before we left, the woman's husband said something to me, and I had
> > to ask the Policeman twice before he translated.  The husband said that
> > during W.W.II, he was a German prisoner of war, interned in the US.  He
> > said this with a smile, while shaking my hand.

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