European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday of i in Lar 10, 001 a stars and stripes Man inc veterans Day reflections of four who answered the Call to arms by Ron Mckinney Slaff writer the nightmares have Long since passed but world War ii Veteran Charles Loftin still thinks Back to that harrowing period on the same Day every year. That Day is not veterans Day. Its feb. 17. It was on that Day in 1945 that the combat Engineer Corporal then 26 years old nearly drowned in the frigid Saar River was fired upon by German artillery and then stepped on German soil for the first time. Loftin 73, recounted his three months of continued on Pae 4
