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What neighborhood do you live in?
District 1
What was your upbringing and what brought you to the Killeen area?
Ft. Hood, after receiving the Dr. Mary E. Walker from the Big Red One Ft. Riley Ks, and than a short stay at Ft. Belvoir Va, the life of an active duty spouse came to an end at Ft. Hood. I decided to make Killeen Texas my home.
What do you do for a living and how did you get into the field you are in? If you are retired, what did you do?
I am retired from my dog training career. I went into dog training after leaving a high stress job as a consultant for a rivet company.
John Long
It comes as a sudden newsflash to no one that the WWII generation is rapidly leaving us. We all can look back at friends, relatives, neighbors who proudly served in the biggest war in history but who have now passed on. It doesnât take much perusing of the obituaries to find others of the Greatest Generation answering their final roll call.
This past weekend was especially somber for those of us who admire the survivors of WWII. Two men in particular â neither of whom I ever met, both of whom I wanted to someday â passed away, their deaths attracting nationwide headlines. In case you missed either or both, let me briefly tell their stories.
film profile], discovered in the Forum section of the 71st Berlinale, a meticulous and original investigation based on the very rare clandestine photographs taken by the deportees themselves (from the spring 1943 to the fall of 1944) at the risk of their lives, from within the camps.
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In conversations with historians specialised in the history of the Shoah, the director uncovers the story of each of these pictures, plunging at the heart of those images with a magnifying glass and placing them back as accurately as possible in the current reality of the remains of the Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Buchenwald, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps. Who took those pictures, and in what circumstances? Where did the camera come from? Who’s in the frame and what does it reveal? How was the film hidden and salvaged? So many questions which are explored methodically and patiently, by offering hypotheses (we do not know the exact circum