Dear Niles East family:
I have recently played a messenger role. I think Debbie Welch has done a service to humanity (I'm serious). Read on. Steve
Mr. Adaire Klein is the Director of the Library and Archives at the Museum of Tolerance in L.A. She will be thrilled to receive the diary and documentation of Mr. Savage. Debbie Welch did caretaking duties for Mr. Savage's wife. The wife suggested that Debbie just throw out the materials but she kept them. "Now I will tell you the tale that Mr. Savage wrote, in his own words....'As we sat on our destroyers in the huge field, with the prisoners milling about us...many eyes turned as this girl walked across the field in a tattered and dirty dress, with its neat X between her shoulders, on her back. She was unbeautiful;her face was bruised and her hair was matted, but in her arm, cradled like a baby, was a bouquet of apple blossoms...In her face was a look of almost heavenly light as she looked...she walked along like a queen on a velvet carpet, joy and ecstacy in her face. As she passed each vehicle, the soldiers stopped for a moment and looked at her...Silently, we uttered a little prayer or a good wish for this child of heaven, and thanked God for her pleasure and our share in it, which almost stunned us...With bright tears in her eyes, she gave away all her blossoms, smiling and talking to us...
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