| Melody Patterson |
Posted on 08/21/2015 7:50:23 AM PDT by ken5050
Only 66, in a nursing home...
“Patterson died in a nursing home on August 20, 2015, at age 66.
Multiple organ failure was the reported cause.[3]”
—wikipedia
| Melody Patterson |
My father was a guest of the German government after he was captured during the Ardennes offensive, commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge.
He hated Hogan’s Heroes with a passion. When it came on he’d watch it for a few minutes, point out that the set for the camp was well done, and then when some BS situation involving the happy POWs would come on he’d tell one of the kids to change the channel.
I guess being an actual prisoner of war took some of the fun out of it.
Yea I’m sure there wasn’t anything fun about it.
Met a guy didn’t have any thumbs. He was a guest of the Japs.
The guy Hogan’s Heroes was based on was British. There was a British movie made about it.
The guy was a total pain in the ass to the Germans.
They didn’t show what the Germans did to anyone for what they did to sabotage the German war effort so it was kind of comic, but in reality there was nothing comic about it.
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