Second Middletown GI Freed
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
August 19, 1953
August 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Old Friend Tells Family Good News - William Roosa Is Coming Home - Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roosa of 3008 Lefferson Rd. would grow nervous each night as they sat in front of their television set and watched and waited for news of their POW son, Pvt. William Roosa, 25. So, instead of watching and waiting last night, they took a load of eight hogs to the Cincinnati stockyards. They returned home at 10 p.m., opened their front door, and listened for the sound of the telephone. But the house was still. "I guess they didn’t set Bill free," Mrs. Roosa said. And then the telephone rang. Mrs. Glenn Ellis, a friend for over 25 years, informed Mrs. Roosa that Bill had just become Middletown’s second liberated prisoner of war...
Old Friend Tells Family Good News - William Roosa Is Coming Home - Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roosa of 3008 Lefferson Rd. would grow nervous each night as they sat in front of their television set and watched and waited for news of their POW son, Pvt. William Roosa, 25. So, instead of watching and waiting last night, they took a load of eight hogs to the Cincinnati stockyards. They returned home at 10 p.m., opened their front door, and listened for the sound of the telephone. But the house was still. "I guess they didn’t set Bill free," Mrs. Roosa said. And then the telephone rang. Mrs. Glenn Ellis, a friend for over 25 years, informed Mrs. Roosa that Bill had just become Middletown’s second liberated prisoner of war...
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