Posted on 09/29/2025 3:03:10 PM PDT by Morgana
OLD BRIDGE, May 2—The straight‐marked furrows in the vegetable garden behind a cluster of houses on Marlboro Road here today awaited the young plants that were to have been placed there. But the man who was to plant them could not do so because he was dead.
State Trooper Werner Foerster, whose garden it was, died in a gunfight on the New Jersey Turnpike at East Brunswick this morning.
The 34‐year‐old trooper lived here with his wife, Rosa Charlotte Heider Foerster, and their 3‐year‐old son, Eric. Their home is a trim two‐story white and brown mansard‐roofed structure with a sparkling white driveway, set back from the tree‐lined road that parallels Route 18 east of the little town here. The street without sidewalk is marked by rows of rural letterboxes.
The couple were born in Germany, under the Nazis in the late nineteen‐thirties, and their lives were marked by the terror of the war years. Their settling here was the culmination of a lifelong dream, their friends said.
“They were happy and he was proud of his service in the troopers and he often said to me, ‘My dream has come true,” said an older neighbor who had befriended the young couple when they settled here nearly five year ago.
Trooper Foerster was born in the small Saxony village of Taucha on Aug. 19, 1938. After World War II the youth was befriended by American occupation soldiers and he set as his goal emigration to Anierica.
“He talked very little about the years before he came here,” a friend recalled. “Hip mother and father apparently, died in the war and he mentioned once that he had a brother, but did not name him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Did you read the excerpt before you posted it?
Yes I did.
They escaped the hell of the Nazis only to get killed by some BT-900 in an American ghetto.
Who, or what, wrote this?!
//Yes I did.
They escaped the hell of the Nazis only to get killed by some BT-900 in an American ghetto.//
From the excerpt:
“The 34‐year‐old trooper lived here with his wife, Rosa Charlotte Heider Foerster, and their 3‐year‐old son, Eric. “
“The couple were born in Germany, under the Nazis in the late nineteen‐thirties,,,”
“Trooper Foerster was born in the small Saxony village of Taucha on Aug. 19, 1938.”
So, he was born in 1938 and he and his wife were born before WWII under the NAZI regime, but he’s 34 years old with a 3 year old son.
If he was born in 1938 I suppose he could have a 3 year old son but if his wife was born around that time I doubt the son is her natural child and I doubt he could adopt at the age of 84. He could die in a gunfight, but probably not as a State Trooper.
Or if he’s 34 I doubt he escaped from the NAZIs.
Obviously a woman wrote it.
34-year-old trooper...born in Nazi Germany in 1938???
They actually reported that the Foersters earned their way to the US, came legally, and immediately began repaying US society by taking Service employment and paying appropriate taxes on that income.
Sadly that Slimes no longer exists.
Pardon me. I didn’t notice you were posting a story from 1973.
“Seems The New York Slimes was MUCH less slimy in 1973.
They actually reported that the Foersters earned their way to the US, came legally, and immediately began repaying US society by taking Service employment and paying appropriate taxes on that income.
Sadly that Slimes no longer exists. “
This!
“Pardon me. I didn’t notice you were posting a story from 1973”
I thought you realized and had lost your damn mind! Yes this is from 1973. I was posting this to honor the slain trooper since that Chitcago skool board is honoring the BT-900 who murdered him.
Thanks, Morgana!
very sad. yet another beautiful family destroyed by leftism.
i wonder how Rosa and Eric are doing.
The story is from May 1973. I was confused too. This is the NJ state trooper murdered by the POS who died in Cuba this week.
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