Re: DO YOU WANT A NEW ELDER?
Manny Karbelnig (aj667@lafn.org)
Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:25:18 -0800
Rosemary: Amen and further praises to Tom Holloway.
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>Hello Rosemary
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>> in POW camps in Russia and Germany four years although he escaped
>> several times. He was in a displaced persons camp for several more
>> years until he was able to come to the United States.
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>> Would you like us to write a story? We also have some questions some
>> other elders might be able to answer. May we ask those?
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>The answer to those questions is YES. I think his
>experiences would be very valuable. I generally
>point out to people who write to me asking about such
>things that the MEMORIES List isn't really the place
>for war or battle stories. There is a list called
>wwii-l already for those. We try to deal with the
>effects that war had on civilians, rather than people
>involved in combat.
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>For example, Raymond de la Veaux was a pilot in the
>Royal Canadian Air Force at the end of the war, but
>his real value to us is that he was part of the Allied
>Commission to Occupied Territories _after_ the war
>and has a wealth of experience in the problems of
>postwar reconstruction.
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>Would that fit in with Eugene Halski's stories?
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