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Howdy, Kathy.

I hope things have gone fairly smoothly today. It would be a welcome change, wouldn’t it?

Before it was Arnold AF Base, it was Camp Peay, later named Camp Forrest. It was one of the Army's largest training bases during World War II. It was an active Army post between 1941 and 1946. It officially became a prisoner of war camp May 12, 1942. The camp housed Italian and German POWs. Prisoners became laborers at Camp Forrest in the hospitals and on farms in the local community. Some of the prisoners worked on the farm where we live. They liked it because Hubby’s grandparents were Germans and they loved his grandmother’s German cooking. :-)

In the second link, there are a few images of the camp. The second one shows the hutments the prisoners lived in. One of those hutments is on the farm now, just behind the house. When Camp Forrest closed, they sold many of the buildings to whoever wanted them and my F-I-L bought the hutment and two other buildings.

Today wasn’t half bad...I got almost nothing done on my own list. Spent most of the day working on tickets...the new system. Instead of just sending us an email, they have to send to the ticket system. Then we have to go in, open and find which is for who, work it, and then close the ticket. (which I cannot do...I send the boss an email asking her to close the ticket) We all hate it...makes a simple issue take twice, at least, as long. *sigh* and my computer, of course doesn’t have all the right buttons. The boss called and I had to share my screen with her. Half the things she told me to do drew an “oh sh*t” response...”you don’t have that button” or “you don’t have that option”. So I took the opportunity to complain about how long it takes, ultimately leaving our regular work short changed. Then she said that with NO overtime this is the only way to show we are understaffed....the ticket list gets longer....and we get grumpier! Hmmmm...we will see.