Roselyne Gerszewski

I lived in Suippes when the Americans liberated our town. This book is deficient as not listing the various companies/divisions. I can say I didn't not like malted milk balls that they were throwing at the windows but most never reached me. But these beautiful people fed us, medically treated various illnesses. And then, they gathered a number of children, me included, and drove us to their camp in a deuce and a half and gave us a Christmas party, complete with Santa Claus. Then one day, while we were at the local cinema that was playing Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman, the movie stopped and all the soldiers were ordered back to their base. It was not until years later than I learned that these beautiful people went to serve at the Battle of the Bulge. So, I am sure you can denigrate all you want, and I am sure there are some valid points, the fact remains that they saved me from some illness, fed us, gave mom a job, she made so many shawls for these soldiers. So lets represent the truth and not just bad parts. In fact Polish soldiers were part of?? a detachment in Verdun,in the late 50s, probably more security and were not liked by the American forces stationed there. There's always two sides to a story. Maybe it was because I was so young that I remember the "good part", but I also remember the bad part of the last days of the Germans. I have a lot of stories that I tell my daughter and they are not negative.