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Re: German POWs/Graves in US
Posted by: Andy Hall ()
Date: November 17, 2004 08:20PM

It depends largely on the local situation. My father-in-law recently passed away in El Paso, Texas, and as an Army retiree, was buried in the national cemetery there. Driving arund the cemetery the day before -- to get the sense of the place before the actual service -- my wife and I found a sizable plot where WWII German PoWs are buried, along with one or two Japanese. The markers and graves are well maintained, and receive exactly the same care that U.S. veterans do. I imagine that 90+% of people visiting the cemetery go right past the PoW plot without noticing it at all.

My wife, who grew up in a military family and so was pretty in-tune with goings-on at Fort Bliss, also pointed out that for many years there was a sizable German community in El Paso, in part because West German soldiers (and others from NATO) got a lot of their anti-aircraft artillery training there. Those soldiers made a special effort to recognize and remember their forebearers from WWII, and held regular memorial ceremonies for them.

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German POWs/Graves in US Eric 11/15/2004 01:51PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Andy Hall 11/17/2004 08:20PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US jeff Taylor 11/17/2004 11:16PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US ROBERT M. 11/18/2004 12:40AM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Eric 11/18/2004 02:11PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US ROBERT M. 11/18/2004 07:22PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US jeff Taylor 11/19/2004 02:25AM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Eric 11/19/2004 04:37PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Kongo Otto 11/19/2004 09:54PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Hubertus 11/20/2004 12:35AM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Kongo Otto 11/20/2004 08:29PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Hubertus 11/21/2004 01:43AM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US HWM 11/22/2004 02:26PM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US JoeB 08/22/2015 02:42AM
Re: German POWs/Graves in US Paul Lawton 08/26/2015 11:35AM
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