Warren Air Force Base - a story - Agust 26

Today is my last day in Cheyenne. I tried to visit the museum at Warren Air Force Base, a home of America's Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles force, but I was not allowed on the base due to heightened security. They would have let me in if I could have found someone on the base who would be responsible for me. I drew a blank. I did get the attached picture at the entrance.

This is the story that I was told yesterday by a long-time elder at First Presbyterian Church.

During World War II, Warren was a Prisoner of War camp for captured Italian and German soldiers. Security was not especially tight. The prisoners were allowed to come to church and to do some work for people in town. One German prisoner was especially close to a camp commander, who was a member of First Church. The prisoner sometimes came to church with him.

After the war, the former-prisoner was repatriated to East Germany, from whence he somehow made his way to West Germany, and thence to the United States, and thence back to Cheyenne. He and his German wife lived in Cheyenne for many years, where through industry and skill they bought and renovated houses. Later, they moved to Florida, where he died, and, recently, his wife also  died. They had no children. The widow left First Presbyterian Church of Cheyenne a multi-million dollar bequest.

which was just received and finalized this summer.

What do  you make of that?