Dear Bunch, Those of you local people who subscribe to the Niagara Gazette newspaper already know it, today I made the headlines!! OK, so it wasn't on the front page, it was in the Sunday Gazette, Section A, page 4 and it was only the headlines of Don Glynn's column. However, the headline read, "Writer Recalls German POWs Arriving in the Falls." But oh WOW!! You see, when I posted my memories to the list about the German POWs at Fort Niagara about a month ago, I forwarded my message to Don Glynn "for whatever the story was worth." Just last week he replied to my message and let me know that he took my story seriously and let me know that he would like to quote me in his next article. Of course I fired off an email letting him know that he had my permission. Well, in this morning's newspaper he told the whole nine yards. No he didn' t cut and paste my entire email message. Instead he took it for what it was worth, quoted me (by name) extensively (giggle, giggle!) and concentrated on the subject at hand-that being the importance of recording the fading memories that the local people still have of those war years and of their personal recollections of the Fort Niagara POWs who had worked on their farms. Granted, many of those old farmers are no longer alive. Nonetheless, their kids are still alive and even if they don't remember the POWs personally, they certainly must remember the stories that their parents have been telling them over these years. The point that Don Glynn and I were making was that if you have stories about your family history or about your area history, write them down or at least tell them to someone about your memories. That's what eventually ends up as recorded history. And you know how us genealogists are. We would kill for such stories!!!! vee in youngstown