Regarding Class Trip
Hi!
I really enjoyed reading about your trip to DC and the Marine Memorial. I am a WWII veteran and I hope you and your students got a chance to visit the WWII Memorial. The WWII Memorial is not a veterans memorial, it is a monument to all those people that made victory possible. This includes the defense workers and the people at home that did so much to help us win a hard fought victory.
My mother and dad were among those that worked at home so I could get the things I needed to fight a war. My dad was a foremen in a defense plant and any time someone didn't do their job he would whip out a picture of me and tell them that if they screwed up it my cause me to be killed. I think they got the message.
Our troops serving overseas now deserve our support and I urge you to find someone local that is serving his country and have the class write him and tell him how proud they are of what he is doing. It will do more good than you will ever know. It is a very lonely life when you are so far from home and never are certain you will return to your family.
Remember the freedom you enjoy came at a high price.
God bless.
Milton Long
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Liberating Prisoners of War
Hi!
I served with the 14th armored division in WWII. We liberated the POW camps at Hammelburg, Nurnberg, and Moosburg. I class the former POW's I have met as my dearest friends. We soon will celebrate the 60th anniv, of the liberation of Stalag VIIA on April 29th. I have contacted the Ohio chapter of the POW's to see if I could attend their 2005 meeting. The men of my division felt the liberation was the high point of our WWII service. No one can appreciate their liberty more then a former POW. I learned from them what being free is all about. I had the honor to help raise the American Flag in the city of Moosburg and the first one to go up at Stalag VIIA. This one was taken down by General Patton and replaced with a larger one. The Kreigees gave me a lot of things which I donated to the POW display at WPAFB in Dayton. I have the flags we raised on that Sunday morning in a display which will be donated to the Motts Military Museum at some point in time. I just wanted to let you know that you former POW's are not forgotten.
LTC (Lieutenant Colonel) Milton J. Long AUS (Army of the United States) (Ret)
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Picture of Milton Long and his Future Wife
This is a picture taken in April 1944, when I was home on leave from the Air Corp Cadet program. They returned us to the ground forces shortly after.
My future wife, Aldine Littell, and I in the photo. I have the negative of this and a picture of us that was taken at Camp Campbell, KY in September, 1944, just prior to our shipping out. I can’t locate a print of this one, and it is tough to get anyone to print from black and white negatives. I would be glad to send you both negatives if you want them. Please let me know.
Milton Long
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Sent to U S Legacies Magazine February 2005
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