New kid on the block

[rennog]

Thank you Lady's for your kind words yes I think my english could be worse, for one who had only one year english in scool (24 years ago) it's probably not too bad I learned a lot the last 5 years by reading in the Internet but I'm still not used to talk it.

I have planned to visit my friend Tom from New Hampshire last year in march but I could not get off work. I have meet him on the Internet 5 years ago his Father was in Lux. in 44.

Maybe I will come in june this year but it isn't for sure, Marilyn the girls name of the story was it Milly?

Yes the war years were very heavy for the peoples under the nazi boot but the biggest crime they did it to our young men they put them in their gray uniform and send them on the russian front.

If they refused to put on their uniform the germans would send the entire family to germany for reeducation.

Most of them never came back from russia

My Grand-father from my mother's side hated the germans and when I was a kid my Grand-mother told me (he never talked about his experience) one day a black car arrived

men's in long black leather coats (Gestapo)went out of the car came into the house without knocking

on the door and took my Grand-pa with them without an explanation.

After 5 or 6 days he was back home they had tortured him that's for sure but till today nobody realy know's why.

Even today after now 60 years the older peolpe can't forgive what the germans did to them.

 

Let's hope that it will never happen again.

 

Martin

[texas38]

Marilyn the girls name of the story was it Milly?

Martin

I don't remember the little girl's name in the story. I read it when I was 10 years old and that was a LONG time ago!

 

Marilyn

[CaptO]

Hi Marilyn,

Today was the first time I read your introduction (I looked at your profile after reading your thoughts on Papa Art.) It was very interesting; you don't often hear about what a child's perception of World War II was of the war as it happened. Certainly better for American kids then for European ones, as you discussed here. Martin's thoughts about growing up with Grandparents who lived through it all was very interesting, too. I began to be interested in WWII in grade school. I loved to look through the books in my little school's library and must have checked them out dozens of times over the years I went there (K-8th grade.) My grandfather never talked about it either and somewhere along the lines us kids either learned not to asked or felt it intuitively. I did speak with him about it in 2000, but I couldn't talk to much about it too much as he couldn't talk for very long.

 

As a Marine, even while in the reserves, I have found that former military men will open up to you more easily. As a for instance, I was dating a girl in college whose father was in Viet Nam. I visited her at her home while she was visiting there one time and had a long talk with her father. During this time, he told me about his time in Viet Nam. After we had talked and I was in the other room, my girlfriend toldme wide-eyed she had never heard any of any of those stories. And at that time I had only been out of basic training and in the reserves for a few months. At least now (13 years later) I have more than boot camp stories to tell! I'm reminded of that line in A Bridge too Far, "This is a story you will tell your grandchildren; and mightily bored they'll be."

[roque_riojas]

Hello,, TEXAS 38 !! I'll add my welcome also. I know you will enjoy

this website. I can see why your second language would be spanish.

Short summery, I am an American of Mexican descent. WW 11 Vet.

I was with the 34th Inf. Divn. No. Africa and Italy.

MUY BUENOS DIAS, LE DESEO. ROQUE,(ROCKY) RIOJAS

[Walt's Daughter]

Marilyn:

 

Interesting, because I went back and read your original post from 2005! Wow, has it been that long? I have come to realize that it's really cool to go back to these original posts and re-read them. Gives you a fresh perspective, and not only that, it let me recall little things that I've forgotten over the last three years, since you joined.

 

It's nice to see you around again.

[CaptO]

Hey we're actually growing and we now have 43 registered members.

 

Recalling things like that, perhaps?

[CaptO]

Recalling things like that, perhaps?

 

Just saw this at the bottom of the page:

 

We have 500 registered members

 

Thanks for giving a sandbox in which to play Marion. Congrats!

[Walt's Daughter]

Ha-ha! 43! And now 500! What a difference. At one point early on, I actually even thought of disbanding the forum due to lack of membership. Man am I glad I re-thought that one through. I try to never make rash decisions. That would have been one I would have regretted.

 

You are welcome Capt O! Glad I could provide the sandbox, swing set and jungle gym!

[Jeeper704]

Well, I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one being very happy that you didn't decide to disband this forum.

 

Erwin

[civilwargal]

You are welcome Capt O! Glad I could provide the sandbox, swing set and jungle gym!

 

Glad that you're all here on the big playground in cyberspace. Now, I had a sandbox and swingset built by a combat engineer. Both involved stainless steel and the swingset had heavy chains. At least here, you don't have to worry about being told not to slice your leg on the stainless lining of the sandbox.....