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Good Morning Everyone, Petra is off to her day at the GULAG, so I am all alone with a mile-long HD list. Laundry, cleaning house - all those fun and entertaining things. Thought I´d better drop by and get a good breakfast before I start on all of this. Zoe, darling, coffee (lots of it) and two fried eggs, sunny-side up, bacon, a stack of pancakes/maple syrup and a tall glass of apple juice - thank you. Chris - from what my grandfather told me, your statement of "Hogan´s Heroes" is quite right. POW camp guards were usually elderly men, who had absolutely no interest to play hero. Commanding officers were usually worn-out battle horses from WW I, who also had no interest to play it rough. Of course, there was the odd young and eager whipper-snapper, but that used to be the exception. Allied, non-Russian POW´s were treated fairly well, especially when the US Army started to pull into Germany at the end of 1944. Close to my father´s home town, there was a POW camp. One day, all "men" aged 15+, were commanded to search for a GI who had escaped from there. All of my father´s class had to join the hunt, only he was rejected as being "politically unreliable". That was good for him and the refugee, because he found him, took him home and gave shelter until they had to flee from the Red Army. Quite a risky thing, it meant instant death when giving shelter to a POW. Unfortunately, they have lost contact since, and my father never got to know, whether the bloke made it home safely. On my "home front", there is no improvement in sight. Things are getting worse, as our government will be introducing cuts in welfare spendings, meaning that, with the beginning of next year, we will have a week´s worth of food less to spend. At the same time, they are discussing tax breaks... No, I won´t continue on this, as it would blow the rules of this forum. Petra and I need a miracle to happen, if we want to stay alive. $ 600 a month (make that $ 450 on the basis of US prices) for food, clothing, communication and electricity does not carry you far. "Too little to live, too much to die" You all have a good day!
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