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Thank you, Heidi! What a great history lesson. My knowledge of the details 
was pretty sketchy.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] your take on aladinn


> > I'm not showing any favoritism here. Yes, Americans stole them from the
> > Germans who stole them from the Poles.
>
> Well, no, not the group that General Patton rescued.  The Poles made
> considerable effort and traveled many miles in great danger to deliver the
> group that contained *Witez II to the American army under General Patton
> because they had heard he was a horseman, and they knew full well that the
> Russians that were coming in on the front lines were apt to eat them.  The
> Poles had no way to maintain the group (no feed, no money, etc.) and just
> wanted them to survive the war.  They had managed to keep them out of
> German hands as well, which was no small feat--the Germans at that point
> in the war would likely have eaten them as well, or at least shot them so
> no one else would have them.  This was indeed a rescue effort, plain and
> simple.  I'm sure the American army needed to nursemaid a bunch of
> half-starved horses like they needed a case of the plague, but they did
> indeed take them in and do just that.
>
> Heidi



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