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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: PatiBob who wrote (161487)3/24/2008 4:36:06 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 225578
 
To the extent that people indulge in "you owe me" they will always be failures. I don't know too many people like that, maybe because I avoid them. Most of that type around here are white guys, standing on the corner taking turns at holding their sign and raking in donations. Which I never give, because it's bad for them.

My FIL was in Stalag III, the same one the Great Escape was made from. He never escaped. One time in the dead of winter the Germans marched them 300 miles to another camp. It was bitter cold and they nearly froze. Some did. He said he and another guy hid out in a bombed out factory because they were so cold they didn't care what happened. They would have been shot if they'd been discovered.

He has a big book that the Red Cross sent. It had blank pages. It's very touching to read what he wrote and copied from others. Poems, stories, drawings, and such. He has a list of every letter that he got from his sweetheart, who is my MIL. I'm one of the few people he has let see this journal.

Today I had the honor of sitting next to a gentleman at Costco while we ate our chicken salad. He wore a new hat that said he was a Bronze Star recipient. Said he just got the medal. He said he was 90 years old and had three children when they sent him overseas to war.

I'm so glad they are combing through the records to recognize those people. My FIL arranged to have the Silver Star awarded to one of his crew who performed a heroic act when they bailed out. Fifty years after the fact. My own father went to the ceremony.
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