good talk

In Dec., 1943, German Field Marshall, Albert Kesselring, instructed the Vatican and the Allies (the British Eighth Army and the American Fifth Army, amongst whom was my father), that the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino was not part of the defensive alignment of his Tenth Army, and American Lt. Gen. Mark Clark should have listened to him (See My Blog of Oct. 22, 2008).  The Vatican was furious with the Abbey's destruction, and maybe it brought the Germans divine intervention as though they had to retreat, they inflicted such heavy casualties on their enemy, and avoided being vanquished ("Kesselring Escapes the Trap").  I was thinking, even if you're a devout Catholic and a famous-person, you probably haven't met the Pope, my father was a quiet-guy who led an interesting-life