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<<Rena Please, do not call me James. I take no offence at you calling me that
but for some reason I have always disliked that name. Please don't call me
Jimmy. Just say Jim>>

I beg your pardon - a slip of the keys - it's my son's name.

<< or "hey good looking">>.

and that's my name :slight_smile:

<<Rena, Rena, Rena, I like that name>>

There are 3 of us cousins with the same (Scottish) name - it's not that unusual.

<<Do you really believe that English
soldiers were patrolling the East/West German border with wooden sticks. >>

No I didn't read it in a newspaper - I got it from my boyfriend who was scared as hell out there!
and I said 'SOME' soldiers - e.g. the short term conscripts - not the regulars.

<<Oh! by the way I knew that the English were not using wooden sticks on the
border as I was there, in the Gap, and also at Bergen Belsen. In 1958 our Le
Clerc rifle team fired against the Brits at Patterborn and won, than we
turned around and beat them with their own rifles. It was all in fun as
these email are. One thing that I disliked about being in the British Sector
was the fact that all of the Gasthaus were Off-Limits.>>

Congratulations. I heard the Scots had a better aim with their empty bottles :-))

<<You
should have thrown that news article out with the one that glorified
Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman for their evil deeds that they did with
Stalin. I can not for give them just because they were sick. If they were
such great leaders they should have had the courage to stay at home until
they were well or at lest send someone that had enough sense to say NO! to
such abominable request from Stalin. No! to many people suffered because of
their arrogance to believe that only they could negotiate with Stalin.>>

I was too young to read newspaper articles - I later read diaries.
I don't recall saying 'THEY' were sick.
Presumably you have never been conned by a conman?
I notice you have a penchant for saying 'evil deeds'
- tell me, did you hear those words often when you were young?

<<PS If you are in England Rena you sure keep late hours.>>

Do old people sleep?

Cheers Rena

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I was thinking as I was driving home last night about what I had told a
teacher once. I said if I could just learn one thing in class each day than
the trip to class was worth it. It kind of upset him as he felt that my
learning just one new thing in his class everyday would be a failure on his
part him. So you see, I have learned one new thing from you today. And that
is the name Rena is a Scottisch name. Maybe someday it will help me in my
searching for the Decker family in Europe.
When I said they were sick it is true that Churchill and Roosevelt were
sick. I think that is typical of a politician to lie to the people and
Churchill and Roosevelt were first and lastly politicians.
I notice you have a penchant for saying 'evil deeds'

- tell me, did you hear those words often when you were young?

No, I don't every remember my parents using that term.
Rena I have many friends that were driven out of their homes east of the
Iron Curtain. When you hear the horror of what happened to our tribe members
from Slezia, Pomerania, East Prussia, Suedatenland, Danzig, and the Donau
Swabian not to mention the suffering of the citizens of the countries that
were given up freely by those two sick old men it makes one wonder if the
war was worth it.
What is genealogy worth if we don't learn about the joy's, happiness,
travels and suffering of our people.
It has been a pleasure for me these last few days writing about these
matters but the Holidays are about over so Tuesday it is back to work.
Tschuess
Jim