[PRCo] Re: Seasonal thoughts

[John Swindler]

> From: dfc1 at windstream.net> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Seasonal thoughts> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:05:39 -0500> > My dad returned home in June of 1945, met my mother and they were married in > the Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church in Washington in August. Talk about > getting along with your life. My brother was born in 1950 when they lived > in Versailles and I did not come along until 1953. By that time our home > was in Liberty Boro.> > My father had a V-mail that his father had sent just before the end of the > war where he stated he felt it was a mistake for us to let the Germans take > Berlin and it would probably lead to problems.
 
How about Russians take Berlin.  This is discussed in a couple Eisenhower biographies and several other books.  Second Armor's last offense covered about 100 miles in one day, and had started to cross the Elbe when ordered to stand down.  Eisenhower said that the post war boundary was already decided at the Elbe, and he didn't want to waste American lives taking German soil that would be turned over to the Russians.  To put it in perspective, the Russians suffered more causalities taking Berlin then the US lost in the entire war.  But Zhukov was not known for sparing his troops.
 
 
 
 
> > Many young children (and dogs) do not take kindly to beards. I have sported > one since 1977 and have had varying results with the nieces and nephews. I > never had a child pull my beard when I was Santa at PTM.> > What killed the trolley? Cheap cars and cheap gas. No collusions, no > backroom politicking, just a desire for people to feel independent.> > Yes John, we have several tunes in our quintet book from the 40's. Beside > the wedding stuff and the Christmas stuff, we also have a pretty broad range > of popular music from the Civil War to the present. Right now the folder > has about 175 or so tunes.> > > Dennis F. Cramer> Trombone> > > > 
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