It's sad that all these people will be gone in 10 years

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http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/obituaries/leon-p-j-stawasz-wwii-prisoner-of-war-fda-inspector-20160201

 

'“The German pulled out his pistol and fiercely placed it on my temple,” he recalled in a memoir. “Luckily for me, a Luftwaffe officer was there, working on paperwork, and he said, ‘Nein, nein, nein.’ You could tell the guy really wanted to shoot me, but he had to listen to his officer. That’s how I got away with saying, ‘**** on Hitler,’ in the middle of the war. My only punishment was being locked in the latrine.”'

[Marv's Neighbor]

They were the Greatest Generation.

[Wacka]

I went to school with his son. He never told us about his dad being a POW in WWII. The son went to West Point.

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

RIP to a great American

[boyst]

rip

[snafu]

They were the Greatest Generation.

"After a 90-day forced march through Germany, he was liberated by British soldiers in May 1945"

 

You got that right.