The Sewer Rat
Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
We went to the nursing home with the intention of visiting an hundred year old lady who is our hospice patient. We walked to her room and noticed that she was asleep. So we quietly walked back to the front entrance. Res for the patients should always be paramount.
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At the entrance we meet and greeted an elderly man in a wheelchair. We had spoken to him in the past and just felt that he needed some company. So my wife and I sat down and visited with him.
We found out that he was a German immigrant! Well, when he was two years old anyway. His whole family came to Milwaukee after WW2. His father was in the German army on the Eastern front fighting the Russians. He was wounded twice in combat!
He didn't know exactly what his father did in the war, just that he traveled a lot. His father was nineteen years old at the time with a wife and child (the man we were talking with), with another one on the way in a small town in Germany.
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Since he was a trained bricklayer, he received a sponsorship from an American company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. So the whole family and extended family immigrated to the United States when the war was over.
They all had a wonderful life here. He was a bricklayer, his wife was a housewife with several children. and they lived the American dream. They retired to central Wisconsin and the man we were talking to followed them here.
He worked in the sanitation department of the county government. His main job was to keep the sewers cleaned out. I blurted out "Did folks call you the sewer rat?" He laughed and responded, "yes." We all had a good laugh about that!
William James Roop
Apostolic Church History Podcast
Brother Roop teaches the Bible
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