The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #3519014
Posted By: Rapparee
24-May-13 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
While eating dinner at The Rheinland Restaurant in Independence, MO this evening I got to thinking about my Great-Uncle Gearhard. He left the the family home, Schlossschiess, in Upper Lower Saxony to join the Luftwaffe in WWI. After training he achieved the rank of Uberunterfliegenfuehrer and flew a Spaetzel fighter in Baron Manfred von und zu Zum's squadron, the famous Flugspaßhaus. Mustard out in 1916 (because he was a gelbfeige, according to the records) he had already been decorated with the Schweinehundkreuz mit Kranz von Kämmererverlässt and the Medaille für geistlose servicel. All of the family was very proud of him, except of course those who were fighting against Germany. When Hitler came to power that whole side of the family vanished into the wilds of the Hurtsberge and, of course, we lost the schloss.