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DAN’S PAPERS
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Chickens (Continued from 91.)
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application for all this, you will also be told there is a portion of the Village code you should read which describes what the punishments are for having an excessive number of live chickens, selling their eggs or harboring an illegal rooster (or, as I prefer to call them, roosters without proper paperwork). You will be relieved to know there is no death penalty in Sag Harbor. After the hearing, you must wait thirty days or more. The Board ponders and ruminates about the pros and cons of your application, the ins and outs of what’s been said at the hearing, the opinions of the Village attorney
and others, after which, finally, they will send a letter to you by U. S. Mail announcing whether your chicken and egg application or chicken, egg and rooster application has been approved. If it is, you can go to one of our remaining farms that has live poultry and buy these farmyard animals to keep on your property at home to better save the environment from the gas you might have to otherwise use going out in your car to the supermarket to get plucked and cleaned chickens wrapped in plastic or eggs shipped in from, maybe, Equador. Enjoy.
Uncle (Continued from page 91) was captured at the pond by a local goat herder who turned him over to the German authorities. He was initially imprisoned in the POW Camp, Stalag Luft 4 in Gross Tychow, Poland and later shipped to Stalag Luft 1 near the Baltic in Barth, Germany. He survived inhumane treatment, torture, terror, thirst and starvation, which included being herded by dogs with metal pointed collars, he was prodded by SS troops with bayonets, packed into overstuffed box cars, fed bread with ground glass in it and enduring a freezing winter where he and the other prisoners left outside would cover themselves with snow to stay warm…At the
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When my teenage uncle went to war he weighed 180 lbs., when he returned home he weighed 70. end of the war, Dan’s POW camp was liberated by Stalin’s Russian troops who put POWs into a cart and started heading east. He jumped out of the cart and ran as fast as he could. The Russians shot at him and missed. He eventually found British troops and safety…Dan weighed 180 lbs. when he enlisted and weighed 70 when he was released…”
Danny’s obituary was prepared by his daughters, Sherri and Dawn. It also notes that he received many honors for his service and that my “Aunt Dinny’s” name is actually Marylou. Only now that I have a son approaching 18 can I begin to imagine the unspeakable horror our soldiers endure. But don’t cry about all this—laugh with my Uncle Danny, I know he’s playing cards and cracking jokes with the boys in heaven now. To honor Danny and so many others, memorial donations may be sent to: American Ex-Prisoners of War, 3201 E. Pioneer Parkway #40, Arlington, TX 76010.
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