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Trane
Registered: July 12, 2010
Posts: 2
July 12, 2010 at 01:55 PM
#1
BOBBY, I'LL TRY TO MAKE THIS LIKE
I WROTE IT ON THE REPORT I SENT.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS PLEASE SEND YOU E MAIL TO
jlpaasch@webtv.net
I ARRIVED IN
GERMANY
IN NOV. 1957.
THE MILITARY INVITED SOME ORPHANS FROM THE LINDENHOF
ORPHANAGE IN GEISLINGEN-STEIGE
FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER. THERE
WERE ABOUT 80 KIDS FROM ABOUT
AGE 3 TO 14 AT THE LINDENHOF.
IT WAS ABOUT 25 KM FROM
COOKE
.
THE MILITARY ALSO INVITED THESE
KIDS TO CHRISTMAS DINNER AT COOKE. THEY HAD SANTA CLAUS AND GAVE GIFTS
TO THE KIDS.
MY ROOM-MATE, PAUL COLBERT,
(WHO IS NOW DECEASED) STARTED
VISITING THE KIDS ON WEEKENDS.
WE GOT TO BE
GOOD FRIENDS
WITH
A BOY BY THE NAME OF WOLFRAM
BLUME. HE WAS 12 1/2 AT THAT TIME.
HIS MOTHER WAS AN ACTRESS AND
DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR HIM AND HIS
FATHER WAS INJURED IN THE WAR
AND COULDN'T CARE FOR HIM.
THE LINDENHOF WAS ESTABLISHED
IN 1952. THE HEAD OF THE LINDENHOF WAS MRS. DREISBACH.
IN 2009 THEY HAD A REUNION FOR
THE KIDS WHO HAD LIVED AT THE
LINDENHOF. MRS. DREISBACH WAS
THERE AS WAS MY FRIEND
WOLFRAM
.
MY FRIEND, WOLFRAM, BECAME A
CHEF IN A HOME FOR ALCOHOLIC
MEN AFTER HE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL.
WOLFRAM'S FIRST WIFE LEFT HIM
WITH THREE YOUNG KIDS AND HE
RAISED THEM AND PUT THEM THROUGH COLLEGE.
WOLFRAM RETIRED FROM THE HOME
FOR ALCOHOLIC MEN ABOUT 2005.
WOLFRAM STILL CORRESPONDS WITH ME VIA E-MAIL. HE VISITED US
IN THE STATES SEVERAL TIMES. HE
INHERITED HIS FATHER'S ESTATE
AND WAS ABLE TO COME TO THE
STATES ABOUT EVERY TWO YEARS.
I TOOK MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER TO
GERMANY IN 1992 AND THEY GOT TO
SEE WHERE I LIVED FOR THE 18 MONTHS I WAS IN GERMANY.
WOLFRAM IS STILL RETIRED. HE
RECENTLY GOT MARRIED.
I WORKED IN THE QUARTERMASTER
CLOTHING STORE DURING THE TIME
I WAS IN GERMANY.
I FEEL THAT MY INVOLVEMENT WITH
THE ORPHANGE MADE MY STAY IN
GERMANY MUCH MORE PLEASANT.
SINCERELY,
JERRY L. PAASCH
JERRY PAASCH----IN GOD WE TRUST
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