Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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We Hear From Our Service Boys
The Temple built under erotl ih
(Icent by 10.000 workmen, finished
thi' interior ir eighteen months (20
Th« following h ter.s were receiv-
ed bj the family of Lt. Arnold Wun-
n«bu gc. f lied Rock, who is located
simi'Wlieii* in tlii Middle Fat. 1.'.
Wunneburgi-r r< -ived one <<f th.
decorations recently awarded a group
of American flyer.- by Brig. ( «.•• >. l'a
trick Timberlnke, chief ■(' the Ameri
can Bombei Commaii<| in the Middle
Ka«t. L Wunneburge i- the s >n of
Mr. and Mr I.. 1'" Wunneburger <if
Red Mock.
Somewhe: e in Palestine
October 29, 1042
Dearest Aunt. Uncle and Family.
This is a letter that 1 .should hav •
written weeks ago; iri fact 1 did so
intend to but our crew gi t a leave
r*bout the first of October and since
we trot back it seems 1 keep getting
further behind with my writing,
I appreciate your letters so much
it is terribly sweet of you to take
time out and write me once in awhile,
because 1 know you are very busy,
and a great demand for your timr
but I love to hear from you so much.
We have a very nice climate here
somewhat like you have, only we
have two seasons, one is dry and the
I It B. <\> tut the completion requir-
ed another oi'jrht years. The whole
complex building was not niched
until til A. 1>. under Herod Aguppia
II when even he nthere were IK,000
workmen -n its construction.
1 was amused to watch -onie Arabs
at work in a small piece of road
construction with a stone wall for a
railing on one side, and a bridge
crossing the valley between the Old
City of Jerusalem and Mt. Olives.
Instead of huge trucks to haul the
material they use small donkeys with
a small basket on each side, in which
they place a stone or two shovels
full of dirt, gravel, or whatever they
happen to be hauling. The older men
load and unload usually, and a very
young lad drives the donkey; it has
n,< 'harness or bridle, the little boy
just has a switch with which he
switches according to the way he
wants it to go, an<l when he wants it
to stop he goes sh— and the donkey
stops.
On our leave we toured Jesusalem
and Bethlehem. In Bethlehem we vi-
other is rainy, right now we have the1 sited the Church of Nativity, it is
rainy. And this narrow little strip of I called the Church of All Nations be-
laud bounded bv the Mediterranean ! cause practically every nation is re-
on one side and desert on the other,
has some of the most fertile soil:
presented in it; this church is built
ver the manger in which it is sup
some of the most des -late rocky posed Christ was born; services are
Hopes, mountains, valleys and plain®,
and perhaps * me of the most phen-
omir.al geographic features in the
world; t'he one being that of the
Dead Sea, with the River of Gordon
running down from the Lake of Tib-
erias (Sea of Galilea) in the short
broadcast from it every Christmas,
perhaps you fhnvc heard them. Th"
only entrance into the church is by
p small hole in the stone wall, so
small that only one at a time can en-
ter, and you have to sto >p; the stone
at the entrance ha- been worn down
distance of one hundred miles t i about six inches, so many people
twelve hundred feet below sea level.
It is said that Palestine has the
most diverse population in all the
world, with sixty spoken languages
among its million and one-half pop
ulation.
It is strange that this little coun-
try should be the dispute f so many
nation*-.; its history is one of invasion
and conquest, and carries ruins of all.
The Temple built under Herod the
material seems almost unexhaust-
ablc, but to watch them wo k in their
slow, crude, primitive way it is hard
(to believe they ever aco mplishe'i
anything but they did it by count-
less workmen.
have gone in and out. Inside the mos-
aic on the walls, column-, and floors
is still in g o<| shape; it is of very
odd and interesting design. The ori ■
ginal floor is covered with stone, witn
p aces they open to let you see the
other. Thi- was built about four cen-
turies affo.
Prom Bethlehem where Chi ist was
born we went ti Mt. Olives and The
Garden of Gethsemane. The Garden
i: a very quiet and restful place, in
it are eight very old olive trees. It is
said that the roots never die, tihe life
.'•pan of the trunk is four or five hun
dred yeats after which time it is re-
placed from the roots, so it is claim-
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ro-operilling loyull* *ith the government in the point
rationing program. The* (till hnve .heir food problem*,
however. For inMaiirc. they want to know how to hold up
nutrition Mandardi in the home and (till make rationed
food* go n* far a* po« ihle.
Thin bring* u to one of the principle* of modern cook-
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in*tance, let'* *ay you wanl to cook *plnach. The old-fault-
ioned way I* to put a lot of water with it and boll it away.
The modern, patriotic, healthful way is thi*:
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0(1 those were there when Christ was
They also have 'he stone upon which
it is supposed Christ poured forth His
agony.
We crossed the valley and entered
the Old City of Jerusalem through
one of its Kates. As the city stands
today it is enclosed by a stone wall
averaging -'18 feet in height and about
2 1-2 miles in circumfeience, around
which is distributed .'M towers and *
^ates, the Golden Gate is kept clos-
ed by the Mohodains who believe
their Messiah will unlock and trium-
phantly march through before the end
of time.
We traced the patch of Christ from
the Palace where He received His
sentence through the fourteen sta-
tions. up the narrow, winding streets
to Calvary. There are markers, mark-
ing the spot of each str.tion, ten of
which are along the pat'h, the last
four being inside the Church of t.he
Holy Sepulchre, where He was strip
ped of His garments, crucified, body
anointed and placed in the tomb.
It is all very realistic and takes
you back to the time it all happened.
It is "e y unfortunate indeed that
everything e uld not have remained
intact as it Was t)hen, but i' i- st.il
worse that the few remaining ruins
have bee- commercialized o such an
extent that much of the beauty and
grandur< is Inst
The Old City ha been destroyed
and rebuilt many times. It h;n- been
burnt down, torn down, and badly
shaken by eailh(|uakes, a had earth
quake occurs every century; tire Ins*
one was in I!t27. Through the nroci-
of rebuilding the city "i part- f it,
the elevation ha been raised manv
feet, |.ri-2" in pliiec. Archeiilo/ist <
have gone dnwn as many :i three
buildings in places; many, many
years a>.'" they P.und the authenti.
i r*o ■ up'-'i which Christ was cruci-
fied.
In Jeiuftalem we met nn American
Doctor and his wife. They treated us
regally and entertained us delight
fully; they have two boys in Amen,
"a. one an aviati n Cadet and the oth-
er in the University of Michigan.
TThere is much to write about in
Piale ine; Nazareth, Tiberias-. T,t
Anii and Haifa. We spend lots of
time in Haifa.
We also spent a few days it. Hey - |
routh. Syria, where we cully had a
gay time. Syria is Free French. The J
Fi e"-h people are swell; the French j
girls like Americans. We got. just I
we are getting a lot of publicity.
In the letter I got from Mother the
other day, she said that Aunt Anni*
received a cablegram from Arthu
that he had arrived safely; she didn't
say where he arrived, but went on
to say that I might run across him,
so 1 am inclined to believe he is over
here. I wish I knew what . utfit he
i? in.
I suppose Ralph is stacking up
quite a few hours. He is a lucky fel -
low.
I can't imagine how those children
have grown up. Barbara is very for-
tunate to low:k like you, Aunt Lucille
I'll say she is a very beautiful young
about everything we wanted, the food
was wonderful, the best since we left i la,l-v: nn«' Bu<I is <«l,itL u man ir hu U
the States; even American beer, h w i "'k'' hi;i father- 1 hoPe ^ h«" t;ht' sam"
ever it cost about 70 cents per car.' r't('rlinS character, and high ideas,
(we have it here at the club now.)
There is an American University
in Beyrouth, before the war they gut
about "i0 Americans each year, it i-
sii much cheaper that the difference
would just abeut pay for the trip over
and it is a g"«d schcol too, an ex
• client Med. Dept. They have about
2.r)(l(i students only about lr>0 girls
| however. The students seem moie
! sincere and studious than in ou
j chools. We were only there a shor'
: time, but I Woultl like t g't back.
They :ort of throw the place open
Americans. All of the uppcrclnsM>«
I are taught in Kniflisih, eonsequetitl.v
Knglish is "pokrn almost exclusive
, ly aroumd the campus. While w
were there we had a coca-cola and
j two banana splits, the only .ne we
have bad since we left the States.
A fev. day ago we were down a
long the Nile a id ove the Pyramid
I want to "o in ide some of the Pyra-
mid' me'itnc, perhaps I'll get to.
I ,u,ipose you '/et quitf a few re
|iort.^ f ii.' bac|, here. There is .■
Give your mother and Maude my
best regards. Also Roy and Libby. I
suppose their child wil be crawling
around soon.
Take care of yourselves and write
again soon. As ever,
ARNOLD
colitis for the chute to open; then
what a wonderful feeling. I've never
had a jerk that felt as good as the
one that open chute gave me, then t<>
gently float down to earth.
I got into a British camp in about
three hours. They were surely swell
gave me t'he best of everything they
had.
i I am sorry that I had to leave ou
nil the details, which I know y*1"
would like but for milita y reasons
they are many things it. is best not to
v\ rite.
Our leave starts tomorrow. We will
probably go to Cairo and Alexandria,
will write then.
No I haven't heard from Arthur,
will wiitc him again, however my
letter will have to go to the States
and from there to him.
Take care of yourselves,
Lots of love,
ARNOLD.
new*
cast
reporter ir.
twice daily.
(' iro Hhat broad
I understand that
Middle Fast
January <!. P.M'I
Dearest Folks:
This is the first letter I will have
written in '-III, and it mo t likely wil!
be rather short, because I have -
many to write this afitemoon.
I have always wanted to make a
paraihute jump, well now I am a
member of the ( aterpiller Club. We
had to b.'iil out right, in the desert in
the middle of the black night. That
was the fiis.1 jumb for any of us
We Were all very fortunate <.r lucky
the i nly casualty, one of our gun-
ner broke his fo< I when lit- hit. I
will never forget that feeling when I
pulled the rip cord, I must have gi
veil r. pretty hard jerk because ii
came -o easy. I thought, oops, some,
riling br ke; then it take: seve-al so
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1943, newspaper, January 28, 1943; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236891/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.