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The Sentinel
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JUNIATA VALLEY MAGAZINE
The war bride
Matthew Bolich Matthew Bolich is ad- hard in postwar Germavertising director of The ny, when Elizabeth met an Sentinel. American soldier, Mahlon, who was stationed near My grandmother Eliz- her town. They fell in abeth was born in Bad love, but when Mahlon’s Konig, Germany in 1928. tour ended, they had to She was a teenager as part, with my grandfather World War II raged across leaving to go back to the Europe. She was only 15 United States and my when her only sibling, grandmother left behind Franz, a soldier of only 19 in Germany. It was arranged that years of age, perished in the Ukraine during clash- the couple would reunite es between German forc- in America, with Elizabeth flying to New York es and the Red Army. Life was undoubtedly in 1947. There were many
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Matthew Bolich’s grandparents, when his grandfather Mahlon was stationed in Germany during World War II.
war brides on that plane, all leaving behind everything they knew, including their families, to start a new life. When my grandmother arrived at the airport, many of the brides were met by their husbands or fiances. My grandmother and another girl waited. And waited. No one was there to meet them. They were told they would have to go back if no one showed
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