I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.
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JOE TIERCE However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not ... WALTER KOHN I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a... ROBERT KAZINSKY Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo... THOR HEYERDAHL The results were so good because virtually everything was pretty good. The yields in southern Minnes... DALE NORDQUIST I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the... BERNARD HILL During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps... TOM BROKAW American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionab... ROGER STONE The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very... DAVID PETRAEUS The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian ... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any... EILEEN MEADORS I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, a... LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of decidin... LOUIS LEAKEY The hog farms are all around us. We're used to that smell -- something we live with. CHARLIE VAN VOORST They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all t... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN A foreign national who is captured and determined to be an enemy combatant in the world war on terro... JOSEPH LIEBERMAN The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to th... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find ... DEREK BLASBERG I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still hav... LARA FLYNN BOYLE My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England dur... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have ... MARGOT ASQUITH I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my ... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Shortly before the United States entered World War II, I received an invitation to come to the Ameri... VIKTOR E. FRANKL My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our ... ILAN STAVANS I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ... (I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kick... MOLLY IVINS My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive... RICHARD BRANSON It's the latest game featuring war-torn Germany, where shooters hunt Nazis and supernatural beings d... TODD HOLLENSHEAD Did you know that at one time trick-or-treating was stopped? It's true. During World War II children... LINDA BOZZO I had talked to Mac Farms about a month ago. They indicated they were still working, that they were ... LYNN BASS That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o... LES MELNYK There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,... G. EDWARD GRIFFIN There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting r... BOB FELLER The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs t... WERNER HEISENBERG As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of '... DREW GILPIN FAUST In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it.... STANLEY HAUERWAS My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been... MARILLYN HEWSON My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to sta... MARY BERRY One of the most difficult aspect of old age is,how to divorce ourselves from the unhealthy foods we ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) They used to just give them to their own kids. Dad was a big joker when we were young. I found money... HOLLY HUNTER My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entir... BURGESS OWENS After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our... KARA MARTINELLI Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the a... THOR HEYERDAHL I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. DANIEL J. EVANS 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-c... ELIZABETH WARREN During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to... PAT BUCHANAN When the first wreck happened, we were able to get them moved into Apple Lane Farms, ... Just as we ... KEVIN HUNTER There are few strong new forces in the world today. Man’s civilization is tired, fed up with war, ... L. RON HUBBARD World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. 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