Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American FlyerUniv. Press of Mississippi, 18 Sep 2009 - 352 halaman In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee’s Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the railing of a ship taking him to the land of his dreams—America. Coming to Colorado is the story of a refugee from war and deprivation, who at age sixteen, not understanding a word of English and with barely an eighth-grade education, leaves behind all that is familiar. Scarred by the violence, rape, and death he has seen, Samuel must first learn to be a boy again. But every relationship he tries to build must overcome the specter of his childhood experience in World War II and the chaos that followed. Shortly after his arrival in Colorado, Samuel spends what little money he has on a pair of second lieutenant’s bars that he finds in a Denver pawnshop. These bars, just like those worn by the American pilots he idolized during the Berlin Airlift, remind him of the airmen and the planes that instilled in him a dream to fly. That aspiration, however, faces long odds. Struggling to learn the English language and American customs, Samuel begins to lose faith in his abilities, suffers depression, and is haunted by both recurring nightmares of his violent past and survivor’s guilt. Coming to Colorado charts the path of Samuel’s eventual triumph. In 1960, his proud mother saw pinned on his shoulders the gold bars of a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It was the end of a struggle for the German boy, who had become, as he wished, the ultimate American. |
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CHAPTER 2 A Child Once More | 23 |
CHAPTER 3 Leaving for America | 35 |
George W Goethals | 50 |
CHAPTER 5 Coming to Colorado | 58 |
CHAPTER 6 Emily Griffith Opportunity School | 77 |
CHAPTER 7 Hedwig Grapentin | 88 |
CHAPTER 8 Settling In | 99 |
CHAPTER 9 East High School | 108 |
CHAPTER 16 Flight 698 | 186 |
CHAPTER 17 Carswell Air Force Base Texas | 195 |
CHAPTER 18 A Different World | 206 |
CHAPTER 19 Camp Kilmer New Jersey | 222 |
Simon B Buckner | 233 |
CHAPTER 21 RAF Station Sculthorpe England | 243 |
CHAPTER 22 An Unlikely Wedding | 253 |
Queen Mary | 265 |
CHAPTER 10 A Distant Goal | 119 |
CHAPTER 11 Ingrids Return | 131 |
CHAPTER 12 High School Graduation | 140 |
CHAPTER 13 A Taste of Failure | 155 |
CHAPTER 14 On a Colorado Morning | 168 |
CHAPTER 15 Lackland Air Force Base Texas | 177 |
CHAPTER 24 Differences and Choices | 276 |
CHAPTER 25 A Shattered Marriage | 285 |
CHAPTER 26 Coming Home to Colorado | 300 |
CHAPTER 27 Harlingen Air Force Base Texas | 318 |
CHAPTER 28 A Dream Come True | 328 |
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