Saturday Reads

Obit:  The last survivor of the Hindenburg, which crashed in New Jersey some 82 years ago, has died at the age of 90.  Werner Gustav Doehner lost both his father and his sister in the tragedy.  Some 35 people died.

“We were close to a window, and my mother took my brother and threw him out. She grabbed me and fell back and then threw me out,” Doehner said in a 2017 interview with the Associated Press. “She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy, and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin was nearly on the ground.”

“Suddenly the air was on fire,” Doehner added.

Doehner, who died on Nov. 8, was one of the 62 lucky passengers to survive, along with his mother.

Doehner lived in the United States for many years.

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When the leadership of these outfits is made up largely of male AGPs, it is no wonder something like this would happen.
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