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Welcome For Special...(Continued from Page 1)my arrival at the fort was the friendly way in which the local postmaster tried her best to give me some information and advice on what and whom to see. This led me to Sherry LaMay, administrative secretary of the Fort Stanton Hospital and Training School, who greeted me and my husband in the most cordial way, like old friends, accommodated us in her office, showed and copied most interesting material and maps pertaining to the almost forgotten past.We went out to the cemetery where four of the crew members had to be left behind - not alone but amidst fellow sailors from other nations, mostly Americans. A solemn place overlooking the snow-covered summits of the White Mountains - a good place to rest.Then we walked the remainders of the old camp in the footsteps of my father and his men, a strange feeling indeed. How many steps does one make in four and a half years in a place twice the size of a baseball field? All this is part of the nonsense of war.Why am I writing thislittle story? Because I am sodeeply grateful and don’t know to whom I shall say so. I was 10 years old when my father came home again, and from his reports I know how well and compassionate he and his crew have been treated in their lonely years by the warmhearted population of Lincoln County as well as bytheir guards.I would like to thank everyone still alive for this human approach and good will shown in spite of adversecircumstances.I have already said my inaudible thanks to the soil of your country, the lovely landscape, the beautiful trees andthe gorgeous mountains, all of which must have been consoling factors to the internees.Unfortunately, during my short stay at Fort Stanton I could not find one single person who had been present there in the respective years, whose hand I could shake in lieu of all the others. Yet some of them must still bealive somewhere in Lincoln County or its surroundings.It is my hope that they will read this. I extend my hand to them and say: Thank you! Thank all of you!
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Carrizozo Lincoln County News
Carrizozo, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1995
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