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To: NonZeroSum
"....with Italian mens' aversion to women being well established."

LOL!

4 posted on 06/14/2005 1:07:29 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

A friend's father had a fellow that worked for him as a mechanic, equipment operator, foreman on heavy/highway work from 1949 to 1983, his name was "Willie".

Willie retired in 1984, he finaly admitted he was 71 years old, married 3 kids, a great guy and a great family, but Willie had a secrete, he was an Italian POW who "forgot" to go home.

He was in Bergen County in a work camp, a local Contractor needed a helper in his shop and the Authorieties sent Willie.

He worked for George M. Brewster & Son until 1949 then went to Jim D'Agostino.

He told me at his retirement party he was sure he would be killed after his capture in Italy. He was 30 years old and had been drafted into the Italian Army, having been told by his superiors that the American's send all POW's to America to work them to death, he said "I was a no lookin foreward to the trip" once he got here he told us, "Ifa dis is bad, whatsa like good? I tinka I stay" and the rest is history.


35 posted on 06/14/2005 2:06:08 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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