{"id":2394,"date":"1945-04-27T18:17:00","date_gmt":"1945-04-27T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2023-05-12T05:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:05:58","slug":"page-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 112"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 27 &#8211; 30 [1945]    &nbsp;Oberlosa, Germany<\/strong><br>Four more days of idleness.&nbsp; Evidently the war is over for us as far as Europe is concerned.&nbsp; We have begun a training schedule and are learning how to be Garrison soldiers again.&nbsp; According to the <em>Stars and Stripes,<\/em> some men with 4 and 5 years of service will be released.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_2394\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2394-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2394-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"> The <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> was the official newspaper of the U.S. Government that reported military news to members of the Armed Forces.&nbsp; Founded in 1861 at the start of the Civil War, it is still in print today.<\/span>&nbsp;Could I be one of them?&nbsp; I am holding my breath (figuratively speaking).&nbsp; When I consider what it would mean to return to the states, I am almost afraid to hope.&nbsp; Germany has offered to surrender unconditionally to the Americans and British but not the Russians.&nbsp; Naturally they were turned down.&nbsp; We were issued our first battle star today.&nbsp; I guess that means we really are soldiers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 1-8 [1945]   Hammerbrucke, Germany<\/strong><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_2394\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2394-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2394-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\"> Hammerbrucke&nbsp;is a village in the Vogtlandkreis district of Saxony, east of Plauen. See Map, Site #34.<\/span><br>A week of idleness or rather a week of training.&nbsp; Hikes, infantry drill and plenty of recreation.&nbsp; A plane, HE III came over on the 8<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; We brought it down.&nbsp; Germany is Kaput.&nbsp; We are waiting for an official announcement that the war is over.&nbsp; The weather has been very unpredictable.&nbsp; Lots of snow flurries.&nbsp; Settled down about the 6<sup>th<\/sup> and at present writing is ideal.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 27 &#8211; 30 [1945] &nbsp;Oberlosa, GermanyFour more days of idleness.&nbsp; Evidently the war is over for us as far as Europe is concerned.&nbsp; We have begun a training schedule and are learning how to be Garrison soldiers again.&nbsp; According to the Stars and Stripes, some men with 4 and 5 years of service will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}