Larry the Legend, and that you always will be!
I have to go back to all of my correspondence - and at some point will do so for the entire sequence - but when Christoph led me to Mr. Stolz it seemed like a dream! This is another one of Christoph's Miracles! And if it had been much later in time, who knows if I would ever have heard from Mr. Stolz.
Christoph did this incredible research and then made the extra effort to find Mr. Stolz - eventually all of this led me to so much - including Robert Geraghty and the most incredible letter that I will ever possess that my Dad wrote!!! How many ways can I say Thank You to Christoph!
It was the most incredible thing to have Mr. Stolz take the time to communicate with me via a translator. And then the bomb, yes, what he sent me - the Siegburg Cemetery list and map!
I just happened to come across Dryden while trying to locate information in College Park, NARA research. I ultimately located and contacted the Organization that he had been with. Those folks knew of Mr. Stolz as well! He had been of great help to them!
I did some research in St. Louis on the crew in Dryden's plane. I also, as I mentioned in an little earlier post, - located and called Mr. LeFever. When I tried, months later, to call Mr. LeFever back it was to tell him that I knew for sure that another crew member survived. It was: Mr. Stang. Mr. Stang got very very lucky (like me) and guess why!
Yes, he ended up at the Hospital/Prison Camp/Lazarett/Abbey/Michaelsburg .... at Siegburg!
He too must be on the liberated from Waldbrol list that one day we will find!
What great good fortune for all of these men that you both, Christoph and Larry, are out there trying to give life to all of these men and helping reveal a lost story of the Abbey's history - an Abbey that has existed for so many centuries!
Jean