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Can't imagine my life without her. Prison probably.
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Irene Timmerman, me and my daughter Grace

Like many young people I went off the rails. Having my daughter got me back on track. I wanted to raise her like John and Irene Timmerman raised me.
 
Passenger waiting room, Grand Central, New York.
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Irene was from New York. She told me many stories about New York. I was born in Baltimore, and lived all my life here, but New York almost feels like second home to me, because of her.
Some neighbors said I even had a New York accent.
When she lived with me, she would often say "this place is like Grand Central, people always coming and going" She loved it!
 
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The Bromo Seltzer Tower, originally The Emerson Tower, has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911 and was the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland at the time. This historic structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The tower was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry and built by Captain Isaac Emerson.
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Bruette said:
The Bromo Seltzer Tower, originally The Emerson Tower, has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911 and was the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland at the time. This historic structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The tower was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry and built by Captain Isaac Emerson.
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That is an impressive building.
 
Bruette said:
It looked like this.;
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That is a big one. Ours only had two serving windows.
BUT the thing I remember most was that it was true fast food. Basically they had your order sacked up and handed to you by the time you paid. The only thing that slowed it down was if you ordered a shake. Nowadays I had to wait almost 3 minutes to get my order taken (using the "app" doesn't help at all), then another 5-7 minutes for a simple 2 burgers, nuggets and fries.
 


Bruette said:
Passenger waiting room, Grand Central, New York.
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Irene was from New York. She told me many stories about New York. I was born in Baltimore, and lived all my life here, but New York almost feels like second home to me, because of her.
Some neighbors said I even had a New York accent.
When she lived with me, she would often say "this place is like Grand Central, people always coming and going" She loved it!
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I love it how the people would all dress nice. Love the hats. Where are all the homeless people?

Here is my Great Grandfather at the Forest Lake depot (Northern Pacific). Notice his clothes look pretty good for bringing the milk in to the depot. These would undoubtedly be loaded into a box car and taken to the creamery.

I like the two guys visiting in the background. Everyone wore a hat and coat, grt. grandpa Isaac sporting a vest under his coat.

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Dave LASM
 
Iron Horseman said:
And related to the first part of this message. I never understood why the German high command stopped the advance rather than just continuing forward. Basically handing them the time they needed to escape.

So many strange turning points and or just dumb luck or dumb circumstance in every war that could have totally changed the geopolitical face of the earth.
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We will never find out why Germans didn't continue the advanvce. What i have read was that Hitler still at that time wanted to make friends with British, but i'm not really sure if that was true. One of the nagging problems German offensive had was lack of fuel, that would haunt them to the end.
 
Bruette said:
I had read those 70,000 were left behind as a rear guard for Dunkirk. I read what a heroic effort they made. I read the rear guard was mostly French troops. Were there 50,000 French left behind? Was that propaganda to make thier sacrifice more acceptable, or were these two separate things?

I never knew there was a plan to rescue them.
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The troops that were left behind at Dunkirk were indeed part of the rearguard, and could not make it to Dunkirk to be evacuated, as some fought, quite literally, to the last bullet, as although there were plenty of supplies it was difficult to get them where they were needed, so had little choice but to surrender to German troops.

The number of troops not evacuated at Dunkirk, was around 70,000 who were indeed mainly French, there was no plan to evacuated these men, when the Germans arrived on the beaches of Dunkirk, they were empty.

A seperate plan was made to evacuate around 200,000 British troops, that were under Fench command south of Dunkirk
When the Dunkirk evacuation ended on June 4, 1940, there were still over 100,000 British soldiers south of the River Somme, a number that was soon to increase as Britain attempted to create a second BEF. They were outnumbered by better-equipped German troops, caught up in a web of Anglo-French politics, and completely unaware that 250,000 of their comrades were now back in England.
This plan never happened due to the inability of British High Command to make a decision, it was however unlikely to succeed due to rough seas, and fog, plus the ever increasing presence of German troops to the area.
 
KriegslokBR52 said:
We will never find out why Germans didn't continue the advanvce. What i have read was that Hitler still at that time wanted to make friends with British, but i'm not really sure if that was true. One of the nagging problems German offensive had was lack of fuel, that would haunt them to the end.
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The advance towards Britain stalled at Dunkirk, because German High command were worried about a counter offensive, especially when they found the beaches empty of troops.

Goering had promised Hitler that no British troops would be able to leave Dunkirk.
 
Smudge617 said:
------ It's now believed by a lot of historians that Chamberlain's visit to Germany where a agreement was made with Hitler to be nothing more than a stalling tactic to allow the build up of Britain's military.
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From 1935 the British Government was aware of the threat of possible German dominance in Europe (and beyond).
In 1936 a massive rearmament programme began in the U.K.. Warships, tanks and other military hardware were being built. The timeframe for completion was 1941.

Chamberlain's agreement with Hitler was a stalling tactic as Britain was not prepared for war.

Germany attacking Poland forced Britain into an 'early war' as we had an agreement to go to their aid if attacked. It must also be remembered that Russia also attacked Poland as well, (supposedly to protect their border).

David
 
If I'm not mistaken Churchill was sympathetic to the Finnish cause during the Russo-Finnish War. He wanted to investigate helping the Finns in their struggle against Russia.

I believe Churchill saw Stalin for what he was. Unfortunately, I don't think Franklin Rosevelt did.
 


Bruette said:
If I'm not mistaken Churchill was sympathetic to the Finnish cause during the Russo-Finnish War. He wanted to investigate helping the Finns in their struggle against Russia.

I believe Churchill saw Stalin for what he was. Unfortunately, I don't think Franklin Rosevelt did.
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In that case you might find this of interest.

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Mannerheim, Churchill, and the Quandary of Finland in Two World Wars

Fate made Mannerheim and Churchill, natural allies, into enemies. Was there ever such a polite declaration of war between two countries?
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