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To: ColtonGang who wrote (165029)	7/27/2001 9:00:17 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

I would have to fill in the gaps. I have a program for geneology, but haven't taken the time to fill it in, yet. It does give me an interesting perspective......

To: ColtonGang who wrote (165029)	7/27/2001 9:29:38 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

My father was too young to be in World War II (he served in the National Guard in the late 50s), but as it happens, my father- in- law, now deceased, was attached to Eisenhower's headquarters, from North Africa to the liberation of the camps. He eventually became the chief clerk at SHAEF,and got a Bronze Star for meritorious service. He was in England during the blitz; knew Bradley and Patton and Mark Clark, among others, not well, but through official contact; handled the intelligence paperwork, and had a deep security clearance; and was mustered out as a Master Sergeant. Given his security clearance, he was tight- lipped even years after the war. I never quite found out if he had been in any of the camps, but I knew he had been exposed to documentary evidence at least, because the memory of what he did know was traumatic to him, and he hated Holocaust revisionists with a passion (he was Presbyterian, by the way). He never really got over ill- feeling towards Germans and the Japanese, for starting the war and committing atrocities. He loved Eisenhower, who was good to him as a valued staffer........