European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                5 by James Oneill yank staff writer a few months a Gas return from the wars was a signal for fallout jubilation in at the drop of an overseas someone would Start a Minia Ture drinks at to Irwin and old Man germans would be on the kids would Start throwing confetti All Over High and the returning dough would be kissed by every girl he met from the station to his front now All this has not because the town is any less enthusiastic about the current crop of returning but because so Many Are coming Home these Days that if the folks celebrated for they  do anything but even though there Are no More Community demonstrations for the droves of men piling off the trains at the Penn Railroad i still has his own private welcoming there Are squeals of Recagni quiet warm words of and another Soldier the next Day the Eugi reappears in civvies just one More Joe the maps wont have to worry and vice but the boys dont mind that Lack of take Johnny a platoon Leader in the 8th who returned recently with a Silver Bronze Star and purple heart with two id rather be a he than a confetti drunk go its easier on the it int hard to realize the War is Over and the boys Are Back in there trooping into the greeks on High Street again and the joint jumps to Jukebox music until the wee hours of the Down at the old mens club along the the old timers sit and listen to the River slap up against the gossip about politics and the latest cure for rheumatism and hardly Ever bring up the War any on East Union Street the neighbors Call from one porch to the trading rec ipes and advice on the care and feeding of and con nors rocks in her Wicker chair and looks across to the lot on Union and Tatham now silent and full of weeds but once the place where the boys played baseball and capture the ill be glad when the kids Start playing on the lot she its been lonely without but there always will be some lonely people in Burlington and you can Trace the history of War ii through their Joe Lukens was about the first to he was shot Down Over Germany in the Schweinfurt Back in the Days when combat was something most of us read about in War then Eisenhower landed in North and there was the Nasty business at Kasserine pass Artiss Dougherty was reported Only to Bob up two years later in a Kraut prison Doc bound for went Down on a torpedoed troop ship in the Mediterranean when he refused to leave his wounded then casualties began to hit Burlington with such monotonous regularity that de the like Many another in americas Small hated to deliver mail got so bad i wanted to quit this Damn Morrisey Norm Lowden got it in Tom Farrell in Germany and Ezra Marter on by Vij Day there were 54 dead and More than 450 other out of Burlington population of through the War years the town was pretty but it has calmed Down a lot before Pearl Harbor the main Industry in Burlington was the United states pipe which sup ported a majority of the towns but with the the foundry took a Back first came the Alcoa aluminium located near the Public service buildings in West where More than 800 people were hometowns i us m pm i s n item to p Kilt