I guess the Americans had been in Willigrad for about three weeks when they found a school teacher. They rounded up all of the kids who had come to Willigrad and put us in a building. The teacher had been a retired train conductor. They pressed him into service as a teacher. Siegie started to school wearing a bandage across the top of his forehead. Mom put one small bandage over each of his eyebrows. His lips were swollen twice their normal size. He looked strange.

We stayed away from school as muc...