
By Tom Crawford and Dawn Schimpp Timbs Staff writers
Sixty some years ago, a young German woman, madly in love with an American ex-soldier, arrived in the U.S. to be reunited and married. Gertrude Wild (pronounced Vild) knew no one in the U.S. except the handsome young army sergeant from Staples, Minnesota, whom she had worked with for about a year...
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