Posted by Mark - IN. on January 13, 2016 at 19:48:20 from (98.206.242.17):
In Reply to: K -Mart posted by Geo-TH,In on January 13, 2016 at 04:21:56:
My father came to Ellis Island on a boat from Poland. He spent time in a concentration camp in Germany during WWII. After the war, things weren't much better when Poland became communist, Eastern block. My father came to America, married my mother, went through his civics classes, took a test, got his citizenship. Back in Poland though, he still had a sister whom had two boys, cousins that I never met. My father used to go to Kmart when I was a kid, buy clothes and shoes for his sister and her sons, then take them outside and dirty them up, sometimes even pig manure, and he'd scuff the shoes up in the dirt, then send them all to his sister, Anna. The reason that he'd dirty and scuff things up was because it was less likely that they'd be confiscated by the communist government and sold on the black market for big $$$. The reason that he shopped at Kmart was because the stuff was better than his sister and her sons had to begin with, and because if and when they got confiscated, which sometimes happened, not as big of a loss, leaving more $$$ to keep trying. He died when I was ten, but not before instilling pride and other good, sound traits into my brother and sisters, bless his heart, and may he always rest in peace.
My father's father and both brothers were executed for who they were by the Nazis shortly after they rolled through Poland in one day, taking it over. My father spent time in a concentration camp. When I look back to what people went through back then, and how people now complain that they were cheated because they don't have a 52" big screen TV and the latest iPhone...Hmm. Kmart was very good to an aunt and two cousins that I've still never met.
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