GERMAN CEMETERY ??

YOU BET! MORE THAN I IMAGINED. WAY MORE!


FRITZ NEVER MADE IT HOME.


NOR DID HERMANN. ALTHOUGH IN HIS CASE, HE MAY HAVE HAD PROBLEMS LATER IN LIFE.

YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THIS, BUT I WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN WHILE VISTIING AN AMERICAN CEMETERY, THAT I WAS STANDING ON AMERICAN SOIL. EITHER PURCHESED OR DONATED, AS THANKS FOR HELPING THE FRENCH, IT IS AMERICAN AS...WELL...AS DES MOINES, IOWA. I STOPPED IN THE NEARBY TOWN OF VOUZIERS AND ASKED SEVERAL LOCALS IF IT WAS INDEED TRUE OF THE GERMAN CEMETERIES. NO ONE SEEMED TO KNOW. PERHAPS SOMEONE WILL KNOW IN "FORT DE VITRY-LA -FERTE"...IT'S NOT FAR FROM HERE AND CLOSE TO THE MAGINOT LINE.

YEA....I KEEP HEARING MY FRIENDS SAY "THE SAD PART OF FRANCE".