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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Lawrence County pride

In my 62 years, I have only been away from Lawrence County for short periods of time. I attended college and worked with my father’s company in Arkansas for one year, but even those opportunities were outmatched by my desire to be home.

I am proud of Lawrence County for many reasons. One is the simple fact that after 62 years, I am still finding things to be proud of.

Last Thursday’s unveiling of a historic marker at the site of a former POW camp, and the story it represents, is a great example. Lawrence Countians became friends with German soldiers being held here as Prisoners of War, and the Stribling-Brock family continued to correspond with several of them through the 1970s.

That collection of letters, cards and photographs was discovered in the late 1980s, but they remained mostly unread because they were written in an older German dialect. Then local historian Curtis Peters, a son-in-law of the Stribling-Brock family, was introduced to a Lipscomb University professor who was here studying our Mexican War monument.

One thing led to another, and Lipscomb’s Departments of History and German became involved. The Stribling-Brock family agreed to donate the correspondence to the University’s Beaman Library, so they could be studied by scholars there and be available to the public.

As German language students translated the letters, they found descriptions of the harsh conditions those POWs had returned to; expressions of thanks for care packages local residents sent; and stories about everyday life: a wedding, the birth of a child.

The fact that those enduring friendships were made when Germans and Americans were at war is amazing to me. Lawrence County is an unlikely place for a POW camp, but local residents were not so far removed from the war as to be untouched by it. I’m sure the Stribling-Brock family, and others who later helped make up those care packages, had relatives and friends fighting against German soldiers in Europe.

Those local residents – and the POWs, for that matter - were following Christ’s command to love their enemies. They saw beyond the battle our nations were waging and appreciated one another as individuals, as people with worth.

For that reason I am proud, again, to be a Lawrence Countian. I believe the same love for others is alive and well here today, because I see it demonstrated regularly. The incredible success of Abigail’s Plan, which is building a baseball facility for athletes with handicaps, is just one example. Smaller acts of kindness I see day in and day out are too numerous to mention.

Lipscomb University funded the Tennessee Historical Commission marker on Watson Drive, site of the POW camp. The school is seeking funding now, through grants and donations, to make a film about it. I sincerely hope they can. It’s not only a story we can be proud of, it teaches a lesson our world needs very badly to learn.

 

 

 

 

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