Tanks Pawel!
I always cheer up when I hear from you. I long to return to my home country one more time before that Final Ferry Captain starts his voyage. I managed to get to Austria right after the wall finally went down. Great grandma was still alive .98 years old and still only walking with a cane. Same house my Dad was raised in. Till that visit she had never laid eyes on me.
I was in my middle Thirties and had a picture taken in a KreigsMarine Costume and Wifey said It was a spitting image of my dad. I guess that's why when I visited Gram, That she recognized me. I was in a MerchantMarine Officer uniform just off a freighter. Her sight was fair But! She thought at first It was Dad, then she realized who I was. Whatta re-union that was. For her age that little Woman had a Ferocious Hug!!
By the way, any item from the National Socialists was Verbotten in our house. The great ships pictures and Models, were But Not the insignia. I guess that's why I was a Newborn Orphan when I got here, Circumstance being what they were in 1943.