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Post by russmurray on Jun 5, 2023 2:00:05 GMT
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Post by zeb on Jun 5, 2023 19:53:03 GMT
Thanks for the tour of the museum, Russ. There's a lot of important history there that should be remembered.
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Post by bfhammer on Jun 6, 2023 0:42:13 GMT
If it's any consolation, there is a strong possibility that the SS officer who lost his watch was already dead. Or he traded it to somebody as a POW in Canada. On a related tangent: I once walked through the ruins of a POW camp near Ignace, ON when I was a teen.
That would be the kind of place I could get happily lost in exploring.
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Post by russmurray on Jun 6, 2023 2:18:07 GMT
If it's any consolation, there is a strong possibility that the SS officer who lost his watch was already dead. Or he traded it to somebody as a POW in Canada. On a related tangent: I once walked through the ruins of a POW camp near Ignace, ON when I was a teen. That would be the kind of place I could get happily lost in exploring. To be honest, it's not so much that the watch was on display but where it was displayed. It was in a glass case along with other watches that were for sale in the gift shop area. You raise a good point as it would be nice to know where the watch came from. The fact it is for sale just seems odd. I'm with ya on exploring old battlegrounds, military sights etc. I catch myself watching some YouTube videos of guys armed with metal detectors traipsing all through Europe. The southern part of Alberta is littered with vestiges of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan such as old hangers and abandoned airstrips.
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