DR
When I tried to do your link method Miami Herald asks me to pay a fee apparently
because I am a paid newspaper subscriber and I don't want to get involved. My
scan
attachment method is easy for me, I have been doing it for years and I find it
easy to
read and hasn't been an issue up till now. Also I should think an up to date
tablet should
be able to do PDFs? Don't understand what Google has to do with this?
Stanley
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From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Dec 6, 2015 2:12 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Forgot to turn it around
Stanley!
I got the story and copied it here in less than 15 seconds. You refuse to do
that. How dare you criticize others. The story in text form is at the bottom
of the message. - Others skip my repremand of SB and the tutorial of how to
find stuff using search with a Browser. The story is at the end.
Stanley, don't put others down. You are the one that cannot use
http://google.com and do a search for the page of the article, then copy the
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page and send it to us.
If you would do a small amount of work, it would SAVE EVERYONE on the list from
doing the work you fail to do. You are wasting our time - each one of us.
Here is how to search:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Search-with-the-Internet-Explorer-9-Address-bar
Here are my results from a search on some of the key words - LOTS of free sites
that have the story:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=aaron+heller+associated+press+roddie+edmonds
Here is the story from AP:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_AMERICAN_HOLOCAUST_HERO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
News from The Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish
American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in
arms and sent to an uncertain fate.
But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking
noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000
Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: "We are
all Jews here."
He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors eventually
backed down.
Seventy years later, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native is being posthumously
recognized with Israel's highest honor for non-Jews who risked their lives to
save Jews during World War II. He's the first American serviceman to earn the
honor.
"Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds seemed like an ordinary American soldier, but he
had an extraordinary sense of responsibility and dedication to his fellow human
beings," said Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and
memorial. "The choices and actions of Master Sgt. Edmonds set an example for
his fellow American soldiers as they stood united against the barbaric evil of
the Nazis."
It's a story that remained untold for decades and one that his son, the Rev.
Chris Edmonds, only discovered long after his father's death in 1985.
Edmonds was captured with thousands of others in the Battle of the Bulge in
late 1944 and spent 100 days in captivity. His son vaguely knew about his
father's past from a pair of diaries Edmonds kept in captivity that included
the names and addresses of his men and some of his daily thoughts.
But it was only while scouring the Internet a few years ago that he began to
unravel the true drama that had unfolded - oddly enough, when he read a
newspaper article about Richard Nixon's post-presidency search for a New York
home. As it happened, Nixon purchased his exclusive upper East Side town house
from Lester Tanner, a prominent New York lawyer who mentioned in passing how
Edmonds had saved him and dozens of other Jews during the war.
That sparked a search for Tanner, who along with another Jewish POW, Paul
Stern, told the younger Edmonds what they witnessed on Jan. 27, 1945, at the
Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany.
The Wehrmacht had a strict anti-Jew policy and segregated Jewish POWs from
non-Jews. On the eastern front, captured Jewish soldiers in the Russian army
had been sent to extermination camps.
At the time of Edmonds' capture, the most infamous Nazi death camps were no
longer fully operational, so Jewish American POWs were instead sent to slave
labor camps where their chances of survival were low. U.S. soldiers had been
warned that Jewish fighters among them would be in danger if captured and were
told to destroy dog tags or any other evidence identifying them as Jewish.
So when the German camp commander, speaking in English, ordered the Jews to
identify themselves, Edmonds knew what was at stake.
Turning to the rest of the POWs, he said: "We are not doing that, we are all
falling out," recalled Chris Edmonds, who is currently in Israel participating
in a seminar for Christian leaders at Yad Vashem's International School for
Holocaust Studies.
With all the camp's inmates defiantly standing in front of their barracks, the
German commander turned to Edmonds and said: "They cannot all be Jews." To
which Edmonds replied: "We are all Jews here."
Then the Nazi officer pressed his pistol to Edmonds head and offered him one
last chance. Edmonds merely gave him his name, rank and serial number as
required by the Geneva Conventions.
"And then my dad said: 'If you are going to shoot, you are going to have to
shoot all of us because we know who you are and you'll be tried for war crimes
when we win this war,'" recalled Chris Edmonds, who estimates his father's
actions saved the lives of more than 200 Jewish-American soldiers.
Witnesses to the exchange said the German officer then withdrew. Stern, who
currently lives in Reston, Virginia, told Yad Vashem that even 70 years later
he can "still hear the words."
About 6 million European Jews were killed by German Nazis and their
collaborators during World War II. The names of those honored for risking their
lives to protect Jews are engraved along an avenue of trees at the Jerusalem
memorial.
More than 26,000 have been designated "Righteous Among the Nations," the most
famous being Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to save more than 1,000 Jews were
documented in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List," and Raoul
Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who is credited for having saved at least 20,000
Jews before mysteriously disappearing.
But prior to Edmonds, only four were Americans, who belonged to the clergy or
volunteered for rescue groups. He's the first serviceman and the first whose
actions saved the lives of fellow Americans. A ceremony for Edmonds is planned
next year. And, thanks to his son's efforts, Edmonds is now also being
considered for a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Irena Steinfeldt, the director of the Holocaust memorial's Righteous Among the
Nations department, said all rescue stories were unique. She said Edmonds
actions were reflective of those of a military man, who was prepared to take a
quick, clear, moral decision.
"It's a matter of five minutes and that is it. When he tells the German, 'No,'
that is something that can kill him," she explained. "It is something very
dangerous that is happening in one moment. ... But it is very heroic."
Chris Edmonds, who leads a Baptist congregation in Maryville, Tennessee, said
he believed his father had a "deep moral conviction" instilled in his faith
that inspired his actions.
"All he had to fight with was his will power and his wits," he said. "I'm just
glad he did the right thing."
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For weak eyes, the feller that has the tablet that cant do PDFs and everyone
else
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