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Show ST. GEORGE NEIGHBORHOODS 4 — For the week of November 28, 2008 ANASAZI PETTIT e Continued from pg. 3 e Continued from pg. 2 rock” Hot rock, she explained, features just that, with each guest served the meal with a heated stone available to cook the steak. “It tastes better than any form of cooking steak; Christine said. She added that guests can also have their meat cooked in an oven, if they so choose. “In addition, the artmakes dining quite an interesting experience, she said. Goodsell said he has space for one more tenant. The others currently are Sage and 2Design “This was designed to be an artistic center, Goodsell it down; Pettit recalled. He said the other eight members of his crew voted to ride it down. “Tt wasn't as bad a crash as you might think,’ he said. As of the March 17, 1944, Pettit and his crew mates were out of combat. 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Find it in the Classifieds. 674-6200. diers who came under their care were interned until the war ended, that they werent prisoners but more like guests. “Cross your history out and start over; Pettit said. “The Swiss were surrounded by Germany. Germans made all their decisions’ So, while he and his fellow airmen didn't spend time in a Luft stalag (prison camp), “we were in jail cells and behind barbed wire? In his book, “Refuge From the Reich, Stephen Tanner noted, “Switzerland had provided a safe haven for | many airmen in dire peril, but there was no obscuring the fact that, once inside the ez the flyers were The Spectrum — www.thespectrum.com prisoners of war. As such, they were under going, Pettit said of his wife. “IT knew that she was OK and orders to try to escape. I knew that I was OK” Pettit did. Pettit said his religious “T escaped so many times faith also kept him going. they wanted to shoot me, knew I was coming Pettit said. Had he been a home, he said. “I knew it prisoner in Germany, he the day I signed up” — probably would have been There were times, howevshot. er, when his faith was sorely Pettit and his crew memtested. bers were captured by the He was in Switzerland Swiss moments after their nine months, eating either aircraft came to rest. cabbage or acorn soup twice “Once we evacuated the a day before he was able to plane, the Swiss had a conescape for good. He lost 35 tingent of riflemen on us,’ pounds. “Finally I made it over he said. They then escorted their the fence to German-occuprisoners to the nearby air- pied France, he said. He port terminal. then made it through the “T had a lucky break right German lines and met up there, Pettit recalled. He =e a British outfit coming made eye contact and later through Italy. verbal contact with a man “I had the help of some at the passenger terminal. members of the French That man sent a diplomatic underground getting cable to Pettit’s wife, June, through the German lines,’ letting her know that he he recalled. was alive. The next day she The British took him received a telegram from an to Lyon, where the United American chaplain saying States Fifth Army was. He he was missing in action. was advised to stay close The couple had two small to headquarters because children at the time so it German snipers were still in was comforting for her to the area. know that he was safe. Eventually he was flown “That woman kept me to England, then to the United States. “Tt wasn't all bad? he said of the few days he spent in Lyon. “I would go to the PX and buy cartons of candy. Then Id go out and always NEED Mu a eae Sas Free WiFi and Supervi have a tail of kids who hadn't had candy or soap. for four years.’ Once he was in the United States, he said, “the War Department gave me hell for escaping” That, he said, was because Childcare! 435.627.9102 816 NO 2860 EAST - ST GEORGE, UT 84790 he was interfering with the troops, who had to take time away from their other duties to care for him. After he was _ heavily interrogated in Washington, D.C., Pettit was given 30 days leave. He took a train crosscountry, spending three days on the trip before his wife and parents met him in Pasadena. “Tt was an interesting ride home; ’ he said. “Nobody had seen a combat soldier. They were all still in Europe. Boy, ~they sure did ask questions.’ Following completion of his leave, Pettit returned to the Air Corps for assignment to ground school and the Ferry Command before being released. After the war he and a friend bought surplus plumbing fixtures from the Tooele depot in Utah and trucked them to Los Angeles. “We made a nice bundle; he said of the sale of those fixtures to plumbers who needed them. Pettit later ran an appliance store and manufactured lighting fixtures. He then worked at North American Rockwell as a quality analyst. Along the way he and June raised five children — Richard Jr., Brian, Barbara, Cheryl and Robert — during their years in California. They have 25 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. “IT could have stayed home;’ Pettit said, because he had two children before he shipped out to Europe. “My two brothers did. But I went because it was my duty: (Riga Ween) BONUS ry FOR NEW DONORS ONLY - Bring this coupon with you to pS CUS meee Late lity : eho) Garth Cur stom tL) (Tce eS Se * Bonus redeemable only upon completion i a Fs full ee Coupon cannot be any other BioLife offer. ; El TTT St. George - (435) 668-1992 |