From: Mary Shafer


(ArtKramr) wrote:
Thanks for the kind words Ed. Actually all posts up to this point got
little or no responses and I have the feeling that there is very little
interest in this subject on this NG. I had planned on stopping with this last
post. But with your encouraging post, I think I might continue a while longer .
Thanks again.I appreciate your coming forward.

I suspect a lot of folks are like me. I really enjoy these postings, but
don't have anything to add. So I don't. Please continue.
Mary Shafer

My brother's father-in-law (recently deceased) was with the 106th Division at
St. Vith. I believe he was a forward artillery controller, but he didn't talk
about it at all. Somehow he made it out alive, although the 106th was destroyed
as a unit in the opening onslaught of the Bulge.
Run over by a freight train actually. Probably the worst defeat of any US unit
in the European theater, but any unit parked in that particular line position
would have suffered the same fate.

I was going to post that comment to the St. Vith thread, but since I wasn't
directly involved in what he went through and really know very little of his
story, relating it seems clumsy.

Keep posting. UseNet space is free.
Dave