Ex-GIs plan reunion with Waffen SS veterans sparks protests
Veterans of the 70th Infantry Division and former Waffen SS members exchange visits for years and plan a Europe trip to meet in Bad Windsheim instead of Normandy. Protests from Jewish groups and a U.S. Army warning lead to shifting the gathering amid controversy over reconciliation with former enemies.
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New York
U.S. Army
France
Bitburg
Floyd Freeman
70Th Infantry
Reagan
Freeman
South Gale
Los Angeles
West Germany
Toledo
Ohio
St. Avold
Lor- Tame
Europe
Minneapolis
Frankfurt
Bad Windsheim
Nuremberg
Sixth
Waffen SS
Texas reunion ends跨 Maryland tot kidnapping case
A 14 year old babysitter Tammy Giles faces extradition to Maryland on juvenile kidnapping and abduction charges after Dallas police recover 2 year old Michael Fitzgibbon from a Dallas shelter. The boy was abducted Aug 4 in Waldorf and held through a cross country search from Pennsylvania to Texas.
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Fort Washington
UPD
Texas
Maryland
Michael Fitzgibbon
Dallas
Charles County
Casey McDevitt
Tammy Giles
Pennsylvania
Michael
Sharon Fitzgibbon
Chad
Patricia Burch
Pittsburgh
Giles
Mark Flick
Greensburgh
Burch
Fitzgbbon
Flick
Sam
McDevitt
Waldorf
Patty
Tammy
Jack Clower
Kilroy Was Here Origin Traced By Widow
Halifax AP report says Kilroy was here began as a shipyard worker’s claim to prove his work. Margaret Kilroy, widow of James J. Kilroy who died in 1962, recalls he printed the phrase on inspected ships after superiors questioned his rate-setting during World War II at Fore River Shipyard. The slogan and its bald character became a wartime meme across ships, buildings, and vehicles.
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Halifax
Mass
Kilroy
James J. Kilroy
Margaret Kilroy
Fore River
Quincy
Jim
Five children killed in two blazes in DC and NY
Two fires in Washington DC and New York killed five children and injured seven people. In DC a rowhouse blaze on Sunday killed three Bradford children aged 4, 3, and 2 and mildly injured their mother and two other relatives. In Brooklyn a living room fire trapped five boys, two of whom died, with three brothers injured. illegal welded steel bars on a bedroom window impeded escape. The NY fire started from careless smoking as the family slept. parents escaped with minor injuries.
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Washington, D.C
New York
Nation
District of Columbia
Michael
Carmine Bianco
Tyson
Brooklyn
Bauser
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Deryle Ormholt
Wisconsin
70Th Division
Peter Fisher
Pentoon
European Command
Heidelberg
Harvey S. Friedman
Jewish War Veterans of
U.S.A
Malmedy
Friedman
Bilburg
Simon Wiesenthal
Marvin Hier
SS Mountain Division
U.S
Edmund Arnold
Richmond
Michael Justin Fitzgibbon
Virginia Lamb
Dallas County Children’s Center
SUL
Witam
Rite Aid
Bers
United Press Internation
Marcela Bradford
Charles Bradford
Mark Bradford
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Chidren
Deliary
Ays
al Agway
Avery
Tomy
Sonus Omer
Agway Energy Products
E. Main Street
Malone
North Central Avenue
River Road
Brewerton
Washington Street
Auburn
Rome Street
Pulaski
Rer
Hierwereer
Heaverton
Depot Street
Norwood
Rt. 11
Somervile Rd
Gouveneur
Cortrane
Sonttang
McGraw Road
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