A Beautiful Post WWII Story
09-04-2010 | 08:10 PM
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A Beautiful Post WWII Story
This is not about aviation, but it's a wonderful story about human beings that I feel compelled to share.
From Seattle Times:
PORTLAND — It took 64 years, but the story of how a middle-class family in Coulee Dam made sure that life was just a bit more bearable in post-World-War-II Germany for a war widow and her young daughter finally has come to a close.
A now-67-year-old German woman finally got to thank in person an 88-year-old American woman. They embraced. There were a few tears. The memories flooded back.
Every four or five weeks starting in 1946, packages stuffed with clothing and food would arrive in the town of Syke in northern Germany in what was known as the British Zone.
Local News | German woman gets to thank Portland woman in person for post-WWII CARE packages | Seattle Times Newspaper
PORTLAND — It took 64 years, but the story of how a middle-class family in Coulee Dam made sure that life was just a bit more bearable in post-World-War-II Germany for a war widow and her young daughter finally has come to a close.
A now-67-year-old German woman finally got to thank in person an 88-year-old American woman. They embraced. There were a few tears. The memories flooded back.
Every four or five weeks starting in 1946, packages stuffed with clothing and food would arrive in the town of Syke in northern Germany in what was known as the British Zone.
Local News | German woman gets to thank Portland woman in person for post-WWII CARE packages | Seattle Times Newspaper
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