John Edvalson might have met Pope Benedict XVI in May 1945.Imagine reading a reunion notice when you're 87 years old, and it says that your company seems to have been the one that took a future pope prisoner and marched him down the road to be locked up.
Of course, Joseph Ratzinger wasn't yet the pope — he was only 18 when he was one of 25,000 German prisoners that Edvalson helped escort from Traunstein, Germany, to a prisoner-of-war camp at Bad Aibling...
The Easter Cat by Meindert DeJong
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Mr. DeJong is fast becoming one of my favorite children’s authors of all
time. His books are usually animal stories, often child-centered, with
quite a lot...
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