Saturday, December 15, 2018

Texan to Receive Father's Wedding Ring Found at Onetime POW Camp

By A Texas Reader
Sat, Dec 15, 2018 11:06 p.m.

Texan to Receive Father's Wedding Ring Found at Ex-POW Camp

On this day, one of the volunteers was excavating a dirt-filled sink and drain in what had been the bathroom of barracks No. 139. As he knocked the accumulated dirt out of the drain, a metal ring ...

My brother and I met an Austrian prisoner of war years ago.  He had been a POW at a camp near San Antonio, Texas.  He heard us speaking English on a Vienna tram.  He said to us, "Where are you from?"  When we said, "Texas," he responded excitedly about the time he had spent near San Antonio.  He was falling down drunk, but very personable.

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