When I got access to some German confirmation films from the world war I era, I decided to look through them just in case some leads to long lost cousins might appear. I did not find many - what I did find was that these records were very scant, Compared to what one would have expected in other years there were very few young men of anywhere near military age - Some appeared to be deceased in other records ... It is some time since I saw them - but I recall the feeling that a lot had gone missing - whether by war famine disease or death. I do recall a few statements that someone had died at such and such a place. Somehow seeing it in these records of young people it left an exceedingly empty feeling. Fairly recently I learned to my delight that his units missing regimental flag had been located It had been looted from the exit area in Indianapolis and sold and displayed as a relic (n a restaurant I think.) Barbara Rice FEIGEL MAIER GRIESS