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neat stack of firewood for our wood range. In ©radically every other case the Germans carried away light fixtures, furniture, finks, etc.“One of the boys who has logged as many hours as any otherpilot flying supplies to Berlin (to keep the major’s wife in comfort) moved his wife and two babies into an apartment with not even abed in it. Gradually they have gotten together enough essential furniture to get by. The promises Of'his commanding officer and the military government to furnish the place adeauately have not been fulfilled. In all of the other anartments in the building most of the furniture in use has been acquired by the occupants through devious ways,“Probably the officer (and he isa Lubbock boy) could have taken several months’ rations of cigarettes and furnished his livingroom, but I know how manv hourshe has spent in the air since hewas transferred here. Maybe hisWife should have scrounged a-round and found furniture, butshe believed the promises and it’s19 miles to the commissary and50 miles to a pediatric clinic. Thatexnlains where her time goes,with no refrigeration.* * *“Yes, I’d like to run away from the fear that nags us night and day: ’Will we get our children out of here safely if war comes?’ and •Will our husbands and their fathers make it safely getting the maior’s family out of Berlin, if war comes?’ But we don’t run away because we like many things about our life and we have a right to be near and want to keep bur families united as much as possible, too.' “Actually we sleep $ quite well at night. The Germans do not bother us: although thev don’tlike us. And I’m busv during the Say. We can only continue to prav for a peaceful solution to this crisis which is keeping our husbands awav from home.”
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Sep 01, 1948
Page 5
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Decatur P.
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