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Sad huh krause


just like your own children leaving you,,, sad but courageous,,, I am
surprised they stayed with you so long,,, just like your first 2 wives
marrying you,,, lol,,, and then this new wife,, 20 years your junior,,, she
is female ,, yes krause?? you didn't marry anyone under 18 or a non citizen
you adopted from Cambodia as you spoke of before krause,,,, Well, your own
mother had 3 husbands so krause,,, like mama,,,like baby,,,

Just like Mohamed,, do you know mohammed married a 6 year old girl,, his
brother's child?? and he wrote most of the Koran,, krause,, what is the
reason you left Christianity?? you do not observe Christmas,, I can
understand when you made that statement,, it is a family time and your
family has repeatedly left you,,, family law expert and all,,, but krause,,
your hatred for Americans,,, Bush,,, Christianity leads one to believe you
may be a muslim or islam,,,

or wanna be,,,












"Harry Krause" <piedtypecase.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 > The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik
 >
 > FROM: The Detroit News ~
 > By Zena Simmons
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=103&category=people</font" target="_blank">http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=103&category=people</font</a>>
 > (w/great photos)
 >
 > On Jan. 31, 1945, Hamtramck-born Eddie Slovik was executed by firing a
 > squad near the village of Ste-Marie aux Mines for the crime of
 > desertion. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander,
 > personally ordered the execution during the closing days of World War
 > II in order to deter other potential deserters.
 >
 > During World War II, 21,049 American military personel were convicted
 > of desertion, 49 were sentenced to death, but only Pvt. Slovik paid
 > the ultimate price. In fact, he was the only American soldier to be
 > executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
 >
 > Controversy swirled around the case from the very beginning, prompting
 > William Bradford Huie to write a book, "The Execution of Private
 > Slovik", in 1954. It became a best seller, and was made into a
 > television movie in 1974.
 >
 > Slovik, the son of immigrants, spent much of his youth in the Michigan
 > Reformatory School for stealing candy, chewing gum and cigarettes from
 > the Cunningham drugstore where he worked.
 >
 > After his parole from reform school in 1942, he went to work at
 > Montella Plumbing Co. in Dearborn, where he met Antoinette Wisniewski.
 > They were married Nov 7, 1942, and after a three-day celebration that
 > featured an overworked bar and 200 guests dancing to "The Beer Barrel
 > Polka, " they moved in with Antoinette's parents in Dearborn.
 >
 > When Eddie got a job at the old DeSoto plant, they got their own
 > duplex. For the next twelve months, Eddie and Antoinette were, for the
 > most part, happy and secure in the belief that ex-convicts would not
 > be drafted. Slovik had been classified 4F because of his prison
 > record, but was reclassifed 1A during a military manpower shortage and
 > received his draft notice shortly after the couple's first wedding
 > anniversary.
 >
 > Slovik appeared frail, timid and somewhat of a misfit, definitely not
 > military material. But on January 24, 1944, he was sent to Camp
 > Wolters in Texas for his basic training.
 >
 > Slovik made no secret of his unwillingness to enter combat, but his
 > pleas to be reassigned to noncombat status were rejected. Bitterly
 > unhappy, he tried to forget his sorrow by writing long letters to
 > Antoinette. During his 372 days in the Army, he wrote 376 letters,
 > most of them from Camp Wolters. The letters contained the outpourings
 > of a man in distress.
 >
 > Here Are Excerpts:
 >
 > Jan. 26, 1944
 >
 > Mommy, I am sorry without you... I think I'm going to have a lot of
 > trouble. Army life don't agree with me.
 >
 > Jan. 31
 >
 > I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I
 > am going... Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to
 > write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
 >
 > Feb. 24
 >
 > You are sick darling, but what am I going to do? Oh, darling, I don't
 > know what to do to be with you again. I am so dam sick and tired of
 > this place. I feel like going AWOL. I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for
 > six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted
 > to.
 >
 > Last letter
 >
 > Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
 > The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it
 > wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be
 > happy.
 >
 > Slovik made it clear he did not consider himself a fighting man. He
 > feared weapons so much that his drill instructors had to furnish him
 > with dummy grenades and escort him through the infiltration course.
 >
 > Sent to the front lines in France after the June 1944 invasion, Slovik
 > first deserted the night of Aug. 25 when his rifle company came under
 > heavy shelling. In October, Canadian forces captured him and returned
 > him to his unit, the 28th Division. His officers warned that if he
 > left again, he would be charged with desertion in the face of the
 > enemy. Several days later he was gone, this time turning himself in to
 > authorities in Belgium. He signed a confession and declared himself
 > unwilling to fight.
 >
 > Slovik was court-martialed for desertion under fire and sentenced to
 > death by firing squad. His execution was carried out in the closing
 > months of World War II, his wife totally unaware of the sentence. The
 > army denied responsiblity, claiming that Slovik himself should have
 > notified her.
 >
 > At his execution, a member of the firing squad said to him, "Try to
 > take it easy, Eddie. Try to make it easy on yourself---and on us."
 >
 > "Don't worry about me," Slovik replied. "I'm okay. They're not
 > shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army---thousands of guys
 > have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12
 > years old."
 >
 > He was buried in France, in a secret cemetery with 94 American
 > soldiers executed for the crimes of rape and murder.
 >
 > Determined to right what she was certain was a horrible wrong,
 > Antoinette vainly petitioned seven presidents to have her dead husband
 > pardoned. It seemed so unfair that so many others convicted of the
 > same crime were not executed. Why only one soldier, why her husband
 > alone? She worked relentlessly to clear his record and to claim his
 > body until her own death in 1979.
 >
 > She also waged a long and unsuccessful effort to collect Slovik's
 > insurance death benefit. It was denied to her because Slovik died
 > under dishonorable circumstances. After her death, Congress finally
 > considered legislation that would have allowed her to receive
 > benefits.
 >
 > She spent her final days at Medicos Nursing Home in Detroit, living on
 > Social Security disability. She suffered from heart problems, and was
 > being treated for breast cancer.
 >
 > Bernard V. Calka, a Polish American WWII veteran, took up Antoinette's
 > campaign after her death. He spent several years lobbying and spent
 > about $8,000 of his own money to have Slovik's remains returned to
 > Michigan in 1987. Forty-two years after Slovik's execution, Calka had
 > his remains reburied next to wife Antoinette in Detroit's Woodmere
 > Cemetery.
 >
 > Calka wrote repeatedly to Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and
 > Bill Clinton, and has contacted congressmen in his continuing battle
 > for a federal pardon for Slovik, who was described by his widow as
 > "the unluckiest kid that ever lived."
 >
 > Author Huie mused "...why had I bothered to travel so far, to ask so
 > many questions, all just to know one dishonored Polack private from
 > Detroit?...Nobody knew about (the tragedy of) Eddie Slovik: he has
 > been a secret...And I knew that his experience is the most unusual of
 > any citizen who has borne arms for the United States within my
 > lifetime.
 >
 > "Private Slovik was killed by the United States for the crime of
 > refusing to serve the United States with a rifle and a bayonet, for
 > desertion to avoid the hazardous duty of close combat; and..the only
 > American to be executed for such an offense."<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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