My nephew Max Edwards did this interview with my Dad as a school project. It is a great historical encounter of his experience as a POW (Stalag 7 VII A) in Germany in WWII and now posted on RU-vid for future generations. As a child I never remember Dad talking about his war experience. I found out later in life that his friends and relatives told their children NOT to ask "Bob" about his war experience. He started opening up about it when one of my boys asked him about it as an 8th grade class assignment. Then one day at a holiday dinner table he started telling all of us about it. He told some stories that my mom had never heard and developed an interest in telling his experience. He definitely had been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress and Survivor's Syndrome. Dad's sense of humor comes through on this video. He suffered pain from his frozen hands throughout his lifetime and was compensated by the VA later in life for it. He was accepted on an Honor Flight in his mid 80's but declined to go because of his health. John (Bob) Hogfeldt passed away on February 25th 2013 at the age of 88.
26 дек 2018
