When I Landed In America I Understood That We Never Had A Chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkUvk9SN3Rs
Comments below the video:
“German POWs were helping to run the saw mill in a Louisiana saw mill town where my mother lived. She was a child during WWII & was always making sandwiches for the POWs working at the mill to make sure they didn’t go hungry. One of those POWs either remained in or came back to the saw mill town & lived there after the war was over. He always made a children’s rocking chair for each child born in the town. He made a rocking chair for my sister when she was born & one for me when I was born a year later although my mother no longer lived in the town. My grand- mother still lived there. I visited her for a month every summer & got to know the “rocking chair man”. One day I asked him why he made rocking chairs for my sister & me even though we didn’t live there. He said it was because my mother brought him a sandwich every day.”