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Across the Fence:  WORLD WAR II, ME AND MY DAD  |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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 Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 12:18:02 PM
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A little family history today. My Dad died when I was eight from his war injuries, I was just thinking about him today and how he would be close to 90 years old. He died when he was 35. So I posted a couple of pictures.
NANCY JO
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 12:35:56 PM
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nancy ... hank and frank visited auschwitz today ... a terrible, terrible place during World War II. He said that he and Frankie both cried when they saw the clothing of a little baby girl about the size of our very own little sofia ... who was gassed to death! WAR ... how horrible! xoxo
i am so very sorry to hear that that horific war was where your own dear dad lost his life.
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 1:18:26 PM
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My biological Grandfather also died in the war.
It's kind of a scandalous story. My Grandmother was married and had a child. She met a sailor and divorced her husband through the mail, while he was stationed in Europe.
She became pregnant with my Dad, all though I am not sure the order of the events, they planned to marry and he was shipped out. She wrote letters than finally one came back with deceased stamped on it.
At the end of her pregnancy or soon after she remarried her husband and he raised my Dad as if he was his own. They went on to have 3 more children and no one knew the truth. After my Grandma died my Grandpa got alzheimer's end told my Dad. But didin't give him any names or details. I had to ask around the whole family for the truth. They pieced the story together for me, but again everyone is in their nineties and couldn't remember much.
I wish I could tell some poor unsuspecting family about us. I have a name, but don't know for sure if it is him. War is so heart breaking.
Farmgirl and mother of 2
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 1:27:10 PM
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I guess I didn't explain that very good. My dad came home from the war after being in a prison camp and then Walter reed hospital. He married my mom and then there was me. He died when I was eight from the injuries suffered in the war.
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 6:12:32 PM
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Nancy I just read about your dad. My dad died when he was 40 and my mother never remarried until us 3 kids got out of school. So I never really had a dad I remember much. Do you remember a lot about your dad? I just think I was Daddy's little girl and that is what I keep in my heart. Also he taught me I could pick up my dead duck and it wouldn't hurt me. Funny what we remember. MB
www.strawberryhillsfarm.blogspot.com
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ArmyWifey
True Blue Farmgirl
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Holly
Abilene
KS
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Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 07:37:21 AM
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So sorry for your loss, glad you got to know him at least a little bit! Thank you and thank him for his willingness to serve.
Holly
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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lamamama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melanie
CA
USA
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Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 09:30:07 AM
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Thanks, Nancy, for sharing those very poignant memories. And what a story! (If you were interested, I bet the Red Cross could help you.)
Be kind to yourself today - here is a bug (((((HUG))))))).
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