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German POW
Coincidences many times show us how connected our world really is. For example, “Ask Us” is a feature of Southern New Mexico Online to answer questions people have about New Mexico. Recently, an artist from Corrales, NM, sent an email of his experience in an art gallery in Kassel, Germany where he had an exhibit. During the opening, he relates, an elderly, shy man asked if he knew about Roswell, New Mexico. At first the artist thought he was referring to the UFO Incident but he hadn’t even heard about it. Instead he was referring to being a WWII prisoner of war near Roswell. He explained he had never seen the town because he worked in the cotton fields south of town but it identified where he was held. When he left the gallery, he whispered, “Roswell,” said the artist.
This Corrales artist requested that information about Roswell be sent to give “this gentleman a great pleasure,” and sent the address of the former POW. Emails are the only way we usually answer but in this instance, how could one resist not complying with the request? So into the U. S. postal service went a current Roswell magazine, with the copy of a photo of Camp Orchard, and a copy of my article about the Piece of the Berlin Wall that is located in the POW/MIA vest pocket park at 10th and Pennsylvania Streets.
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