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From: "Don Spidell" <>
Subject: Re: Speidel Family
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:39:58 -0700


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Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 10:30 AM
Subject: Speidel Family

>Hi Donald,
>
>Please put my name on the mail mode list. I would like to learn as much as
>possible about my family history. I will also forward any additional
>information I can find to you.
>
>I found your website quite interesting and enjoyable. I will tell all of
my
>extended Speidel family members ware online about it as well.
>
>Incidentally, I went to Germany when I was going to college in England in
>1990. I was especially taken by a beautiful small town called Baden-Baden
>(near Stuttgart) in Germany. I am wondering if my fascination with Baden-
>Baden could be due to past family ties, roots and influences there.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Aimee Christine Speidel
>Thousand Oaks, California
>e-mail address:
>
>

Aimee,

Thank you for your comments. I am glad to have found another cousin.

I was stationed in Germany twice during my career in the Army, and I found
it thoroughly enjoyable both times. Naturally, I went native. I had studied
the language in high school before I even went over. I adopted the German
style of dressing, and even some of their mannerisms. Germans would stop me
on the streets and ask for directions. I even went to a German night club in
Frankfurt one time with a friend, and the MC was very good at guessing where
a person was from, just by his accent when saying a few words of greeting. I
was the only one that really stumped him, and the whole place fell apart
laughing when I finally said, "Wir sind Amerikaner!"

I fell in love with a beautiful small city by the name of Wuertsburg. It is
not too far from the Speidel stomping grounds, and it is a real joy. It is a
university town, and that is where Roentgen discovered x-rays. It is also
the seat of the governing body of the Catholic Church in Germany. There is a
beautiful Gothic or Rococo cathedral on almost every block downtown. Then
there was this Gasthaus, "the Martinsklause" hidden away in a bomb shelter
beneath a building on a back alley where the university medical students
used to go. It was very tastefully decorated, they had nothing but German
Classics on the juke box (Strauss, Bach, etc.), their waitresses were coeds
from the university. The food was also delicious.

Now you've got me reminiscing about Germany. I'll probably be in this mood
all day, but it is a happy mood.

Please send me the pedigree of your Speidel line.

Don Spidell

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