Review of the book, The Flame Keepers
by James Perlowski
So where do I start?
How about the simple fact
that it is my opinion that EVERY citizen of the United
States of America should have to read this book as an obligation to
continue being a citizen of the U.S.!
Sound too harsh? Well, Good!
Let me explain....
During World War II there
were men, young men mostly, who sacrificed at great odds their
personal securities and freedom in order that we could live our
daily lives any way we see fit today. Many of them flew the bombers
that destroyed the Nazi munitions and development plants over
Germany which saved many of our troops from having to die in the
process of finally invading and taking out this mad man Hitler.
But unfortunately, most of
these same very men were shot down, killed, or captured and sent to
a hell known as a "Stalag" or Prison Camp (80% causality rate in the
466th Bomb group alone!). Not the funny ha ha Stalags like the one
you see in Hogan's Heroes, where every inmate looked well fed and
happy go lucky, but a concentration camp masked as something more
that its true meaning...a place where they were served 1 meal a day
consisting of a form of gruel that had rat meat and anything else
the German's could find around the area. Sometimes they were lucky
and could find a piece of wild turnip or rancid potato mixed in for
good measure, but the soup was nothing more than a low nutrient
broth....
They lived on this for the
entire time they were forced to stay there. They went through un
godly trials at ages ranging from 20 to 26 years of age, and
normally froze in the winters and baked in the summers, living in
barracks that were made of poorly insolated drift wood as most other
supplies were used for the army.
Leave it to say that these
men will always be ingrained in my mind and heart as heroes beyond that of any
"John Wayne" or Audie Murphy type, simply because they didn't ask
for this, but carried themselves with the honor and dignity
becoming United States Air Force Personnel.
To the many men who served
valiantly in our Armed Forces, I thank you from the bottom of my
heart and salute you!
God Bless,
James
James L Perlowski Jr.
Web master/Harv
September 2006
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