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Don

Your background "Whistling Death" along the rails reminds me of a customer in Belgium whose garment factory sat alongside the tracks 100 yards down track from a rail yard. In 1944 when the German Army still controlled his factory, U.S. fighter bombers attacked down at the rail yard and one of the 500 pound bombs bounced and skipped and only detonated when it took out the end of his factory.

 

 

He relayed the story when I ask why both the interior and exterior of one end of his restored plant was decorated [painted] as an American flag? He mentioned two reasons: first, the U.S. Military aid program had rebuilt his factory in 1946, and second, the flag was a constant reminder to his workers and the town citizens of who has saved Belgium, and Europe, from the Nazi. 

 

This is a story[history] that I tell my children and grandchildren to emphasize that America was and is more than just a war fighter. 

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