Dual Layer Dvd: Fritz Bakery

Friday, 9 November 2012

Fritz Bakery

Former Honolulu baker Fritz Vincken died Dec. 8 in Oregon, 16 days before the 57th anniversary of well-publicized Christmas story of "the night God came to dinner."Vincken was 12 years old when three American and four German soldiers converged on his house in the Ardennes Forest near the German-Belgium border on a harsh winter night in 1944. It was Christmas Eve and Vincken's mother, Elisabeth, offered food and shelter to the soldiers after they agreed to put their weapons down to share an evening of good will and peace.After a restful night, the soldiers went their separate ways but not before the Germans gave the Americans a compass and directions back to their front lines.In recalling the story in his 1985 visit to Germany, President Reagan noted that it "needs to be told and retold because none of us can ever hear too much about building peace and reconciliation."