Jean Thackeray and Susan Thackeray

“One of the soldiers was crying...”

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Jean Thackeray tells her daughter-in-law, Susan, about a German POW who worked on her father's farm during World War II.

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Recorded in Logan, UT.

Jean Thackeray and Susan Thackeray

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Utah, Logan, Westerners, farms, farming, farmers, World War Two, WWII, World War II, Second World War, WW2, W.W.II, Prisoners of War, POWs, Germans, Germany, work camps, prison camps, labor camps, religion, compassion, prisoner of war camps, growing up, surprises, presents, gifts, harvesting, understanding

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