PAUL A. JONES: German POWs get their revenge
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Germans planted many of the trees that were toppled in January
By Paul A. Jones
The Germans have finally gotten even with us for their defeat in World War II.
It was German prisoners of war that planted the many pine trees in the 1940s that were toppled by the tornado of January 2017.
The German POWs were paid 25 cents a day to plant the trees for the landowners of the farmland that surrounded Albany in the 1940s. These farm acreages are now the subdivisions that received the brunt of our last tornado.
I find this ironic that it took 65 years for their revenge to be received.
PAUL A. JONES
Albany
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