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Wilbur • Eastgate Walla WallaUWVVVO www.abaiianmotors.comDAY* MICHAEL $ YE ARS509-525-1920Assault on German city resulted in veteran’s captureContinued from Page A1MIKE BYERGO, 11 YEARS® TOYOTATUNDRA I2006 DOUBLE CABWALTER BROMANBroman has saved much of his correspondence from that time, especially that written to Marion, the girl back home who would eventually be his wife for 47 years, until her death in 1993.On this day, a piece of such history was retrieved from boxes in his garage by Broman’s wife of 11 years, Barbara Broman. With her coaxing, the former Whitman English professor consented to letting his “terrible writing” become public.On Nov. 24, 1944, in the cramped space of a V-mail postcard, he wrote:Marion, Dearest,I wrote you a letter, but I will send this in case that is tardy arriving.We are taking a little rest behind the Front. One of those bright, chilly autumn days in a German village.I can concede the bird song that must have inspired Heine and Goethe — sanity quite remote from the scourge of the Nazis.For the latter I evolve no sympathy at all.I am thankful that our America does not have to sustain the terrible attrition of war, I pray that we will earn our peace, and the greatest efforts of mankind will flourish there always — music, art, painting, literature.... I made a batch of apple sauce today and it was a culinary triumph. But I’d like to come home soon and let you take over the apple sauce end of life...I embrace you and give you a the warmth of my heart. Goodnight, Marion.Yours,Walter E.At that moment, as he rested from battle, Broman had no idea he would not be able to correspond again for a long time.On Nov. 29, the 84th Infantry Division — despite heavy enemy resistance — captured Lindem,Germany. It was a successful maneuver allowing Allied forces to help stem the German’s winter offensive.History records the day broke cold and rainy; a persistent mist hung in the air. Mud, the nemesis of foot soldiers, was thickeverywhere. The lay of the land was essentially flat, with only the occasional small rise for cover.Claiming Lindem was a central component in the battle to dismantle the formidable Wurm-Beeck-Leiffarth-Lindem triangle, a stronghold of German resistance.The battle, begun in predawn dark, lasted the entire day, Broman said.But not for everyone. “For me, only part of a day,” he said with a small nod.To the young soldier, the initial plan seemed reasonable.“We were hoping to sneak into Lindem and surround it. But the Germans were waiting for us. As we came down the road, there they were.”Broman, who spent much of his academic career in Walla Walla, credited German officers with being fairly smart, he said. “They probably knew we were coming.”For the 23-year-old soldier, that meant trouble unlike anything he’d experienced.First came the bullet in the knee, then shrapnel through his right arm. The last assault came as another bullet went through his right foot.Still, the infantryman stayed upright on that road to Lindem, unable to flee asGerman soldiers approached.In German, he was ordered to put his hands up.Above, Infantryman Walter Broman would eventually become a Whitman College professor of English. He is pictured in the second row from the top, marked with an “X. At right, snapshots from the past show a young and smiling soldier., Surrounded by British and AmericanPOWs,Broman wondered ifhe would everthe prisoners faced, he said. Despite the crackers found amidst the cigarettes in the Red Cross care packets, some in the camp died of malnutrition. Many meals were nothing but soup concocted from the leaves of cabbages or beets. “Not very nourishing,” Broman said, an eyebrow elevated just slightly.He and others were moved about and by April, he was in his third prison camp, just north of Berlin. “We’d lie there and hear Berlin being bombed every night.”The sound of destruction gave the POWs a certain kind of joy, Broman noted. He took what he describes as “an evil delight” in seeing his German captors suddenly afraid of the Americans.“They were terrified. That seemed so funny to me,” he said. “I thought they could tell Americans were the good guys by looking at them.”In early spring the Polish Army was close to the prison camp. Those in charge decided to walk the 30 to 40 prisoners out of the camp. “We must have walked 100 miles before we were freed,” Broman said.April 13,1945, was one of the happiest days of his life.Not only was he finally free, “at that point the war was over for me,” he said.Exactly what he wishes for every soldier today, Broman said. “This war today is entirely useless. A mistake.” His heart is burdened for the young people being held captive, he said. “I know what my mother went through... ” He worries, too, for those yet to return from fighting, he said in a voice grown tired“I was filled with terror. My choice was to surrender or die. And I didn’t feel like dying,” Broman said. “Still don’t, I guess.”He knows it could have been worse — several Americans died on the outskirts of Lindern on Nov. 29. Although Broman wasn’t to meet and befriend Elmer Edvalson of Milton-Freewater for several decades, the professor recently learned Edvalson’s brother Lloyd died there that same day.Broman and other prisoners were sent to a medical encampment, the first of many forced marches, he said.Prepped for surgery, he was about to go under the ether when a German doctor said to him, in English, “Do not be afraid.”“It touched my heart,” Broman said.The moment of grace had to last. The next many months were filled with starvation and a constant longing forhome and loved ones.see home again. But he was never physically harmed by his keepers, he pointed out. “Some of the Germans were actually quite kind.”The lack of food was the worst torture‘03 Lincoln Aviatorover the course of an afternoon.“It just feels hopeless, like we’re just stuck there,” he said of the war in Iraq.“I think of all the young men and women dying, it just bothers me. And dying out of your own country makes it worse,” Broman said. “I’ve never supported this war at any point.”Aside from some kneetrouble, Broman retired from the military physically unscathed.Veterans Day, though, brings back another sort of pain, he said. His eyes, framed by the etchings of time, turn briefly to a charcoal sketch he did in a Paris hospital after his rescue.The artwork depicts thetree-lined Champs Elysees, with cars of the era traveling the boulevard and life looking more normal than it possibly could have been. The small, framed piece has become a souvenir of a past Broman would like to keep there.It’s what he would say to those returning from Iraq and elsewhere, he said.In a voice just above a whisper, a soldier from the past dispenses advice to those in the present. “Try and forget the war. I know that’s hard to do.“No one gets over war. 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