"Then and now : A GI offered Christmas gifts in 1944" Topic
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| SgtPerry | 12 Dec 2014 12:25 a.m. PST |
Richard Cotton, a nineteen years old corporal of 79th Infantry Division offered Christmas gifts in december 1944 to three children in Alsace near Hagenau. 70 years later, he found one of them, Maria Martz, a woman who was 4 years old in 1944 and who never forgot this Santa Claus. Mr Cotton travelled with his two sons and twelve grand-children. link
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| Northern Monkey | 12 Dec 2014 12:55 a.m. PST |
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| McWong73 | 12 Dec 2014 3:57 a.m. PST |
Nice xmas story, tres bien. |
| Weasel | 12 Dec 2014 9:48 a.m. PST |
Aw nice, a little bit of christmas spirit AND its wargame related. Nice find. |
| OSchmidt | 12 Dec 2014 10:47 a.m. PST |
Stories like this always reduce me to tears. In the midst of so much destruction, violence and evil, there is humanity, tenderness, and love. It gives hope even to the hopeless. |
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