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br> -- Mark Stoffel br> Arlington, Virginia /p> p> In a county with fewer than 300 million citizens, it seems a bit of a stretch that there would be 175 million donor names on that list. The 2000 census didn't even report 200 million voting age citizens. Oh, wait. I forgot about Charley Trie and his countrymen. br> -- Corey L. Fish /p> p> A CHILD AFTER NAZI RULE br> Re: Shawn Macomber's A Child Under Nazi Rule : /p>

Just about everybody who grew up in the '50s had a WWII veteran father, and just about everybody else's father was one too. The only questions were "what branch" and "what theater." But one difference for me was a "war bride" mother, who spent four harrowing years under the Nazi occupation of Belgium, her Rotem not that far from Titia Bozuwa's Breda. She spent the last year hiding in Brussels, without appropriate papers, her name on a list for deportation to slave labor in Germany, having been forewarned by two cousins in the civil service who were later shot. Without any exaggeration, her mass of experiences were "scarier," both to me as a child and even now as a middle-aged man, than my USGI father's, who fought in the Ardennes and through Germany to the end of the war. He could fight back and did. She was completely at the Germans' mercy.

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