Corner View: Postcard (from a POW)

 I was going through some boxes yesterday

looking for some postcards

I had gotten when I was much younger.

 I wanted them for this corner view topic.

I didn't find them (yet).

But I discovered something I didn't know I had:

a postcard from my father

to his parents

when he was a POW in Germany

in WWII.

I have taken photos of both sides

with close-ups of parts.

Bad Orb was the name of the camp

where my dad was imprisoned for 4 months.

Notice he says  never give up twice:

once at the top--"Never give up hope."

and on the last line -"Never give up."

I tear up at "I pray every night & have faith

that God will bring me home to you all again."

 As regular readers of my blog know from previous posts,

God did bring Dad home,

and Dad honored that with becoming a Methodist minister.

By the time Dad was captured the Germans were struggling

with feeding and clothing themselves.

Red Cross was no longer getting through to the camps.

Packages were sent, but they never made it.

But Dad survived.

For more Corner View postcard ideas,

check out Francesca's Fuoriborgo