For Veteran's day..........
I know this is a tow vehicle forum so I thought in honor of veterans on Veteran's Day I would share what I have found lately. Much has been said about Detroit lately, much of it not in the positive...
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DutchmenSport wrote:
My mother's brother was actually shot with shrapnel and it knocked him out for dead. When he woke up, he was in an America Red Cross POW camp. Unbelievable as this may sound, he was moved to Columbus, Ohio and served the remainder of the war at the POW camp located there. I do believe, and always will, this actually saved his life. He learned to write, read, and speak English when at Columbus, and when the war was over, he was returned home to Germany. He became very successful working for a pharmaceutical manufacturing plan in Mannheim where he eventually retired from. (He died about 15 years ago now).
I remember my mother who was from Connecticut telling stories about German POW's being there and how the locals used to bring fresh food and meals for them. She said the POW's were treated so well that when the war was over a lot of them did not want to go back to Germany.
