Is Rudi Salvermoser still around?

[Rudi Salvermoser]

Guten Tag,
to all of you you who sent me wishes, thank you!
I am still doing well - plan on sticking around for quite some time.
To everyone one on this forum: my best wishes in 2010.

By the way, yesterday we've spent all day in Disney World with family from the Washington, DC area. It was a lot of fun - temperature climbed to 70F. We could not see our granddaughter performing as she worked in Animal Kingdom and we visited the Madic Kingdom only.

Viele Neujahr's Wünsche, Rudi

[Rudi Salvermoser]

Hello everyone,
it's been a long time that no info was posted.
I am still doing OK here in Florida. Would like to see some posts again from the oldtimers.
Auf Wiederhoeren,
Rudi

[kordts]

Hello Rudi,
I have enjoyed your posts. I hope things are going well with you and yours. In my part of Illinois, it has turned cold and windy. I used to work with a pipefitter, Dieter, who was from Munchen (Munich.) His dad was a Heer officer and his uncle was SS. Dieter ended up in the US army and serving in Germany. His dad was still a nazi and never spoke to him after he saw him in his US uniform. It is amazing the number of German vets who settled here, and contributed so much to our country. I pray the Lord adds blessings to your years and years to your life!
Jeff

[chambers]

Hello Mr. Salvermoser, good to hear from you and that all is well. I too would like to see more from the "old timers".

Best regards to you sir and I hope that the Florida climate is treating you very well this time of year.

Brooke

[Rudi Salvermoser]

Hello everyone,
BTW Brooke, you may call me Rudi (even though I am a little bit older than you - ha, ha).
I am doing alright. This week, some people from the 'Breakthrough Films & Television Company (Toronto, Canada)' will be visiting me this week for the purpose of an interview about the Battle of Narva (in which I participated as a member of the FBB/GD Kampfgruppe).
Wish me luck,
Rudi

[haen2]

Glad to hear you are still breathing Rudi
But since we are on the subject of missing persons, "wahapped" to Rudi Welz ? Have not heard from him lately.
He was "Skyping" the other day, but i did not want to butt in, because he probably was talking with his daughter in Michigan.
And . . . ? are you, Rudi W. and I the only vets left on line ??
Oh well.
"hang in there" my friend !
Hugo N.

[haen2]

just a little follow up.
I e-mailed Rudi Welz, but have not heard back from him yet. My German is getting worse by the day, so I wrote him in English.I do know that he is fluent in english, because we corresponded in it before.
I am afraid that his wife took a turn for the worse, but keep hoping that I am wrong.
If anybody has heard from him lately, PLEASE send me an e-mail or p.m.
He is one of the "last of the Mohikans", and a good friend and kamerad.
Thanks in advance
Hugo N.

[chambers]

So sorry to hear that about Mr. Welz's wife. If you hear from him please give us an update.

brooke

[haen2]

Hurrah !!! Rudi and Erika, HAPPY ANIVERSARY !!!!!
Thanks for the e-mail Rudi !!!!
Your Freund und Kamerad.
Hugo N.

[Rudi Welz]

Hallo my dear friend and comrad Hugo,
thanks a lot for your wishes. I am back now in old Germany and I hope to get Erika in better conditions again. Since the
surgery her heart works better and I hope it will do it's work some years longer.
BTW, it's good to know to have such comrades and friends like you!
Dein Freund und Kamerad
Rudi

[chambers]

I wish Erika a smooth and swift recovery. May you two have many more years together.

Brooke

[Rudi Salvermoser]

I would like to wish Rudi's wife Erika "Gute Besserung".
I'm still doing OK.
Rudi Welz: How is good old Germany now. Haven't been there for a while. Unfortunately, I have no more family members over there, just a few old friends with whom I correspond by telephone every now and then.
I wish everyone on this forum well and hope to hear from you all (as we said in Texas) again.
Tschuess, auf Wiederhoeren und viele Gruesse aus Florida,
Rudi Salvermoser

[Rudi Welz]

Hallo Rudi,
thanks a lot for your godd wishes! I hope Erika will stay some more years with me.
What can I say how "good old Germany" is now? The difference between poor and rich is showing more and more, just
like over there. The lady from East-Germany should take car for the german people first, but she has other interests.
She want's to be "Amerika' best friend".

Kameradschaftliche Grüße von Haus zu Haus

Dein Kamerad Rudi Welz

[Rudi Salvermoser]

Servus Rudi,
herzlichen Dank fuer Deine Zeilen. Ich nehme an, dass Du immer noch gut Deutsch sprechen kannst. Ich werde so schoen langsam ein 'Deutschverderber' wie man so gesagt hat. Bin ja doch schon seit 1948 hier in den Staaten.
Wie Du ja bestimmt weisst, bin ich gebuertiger Amerikaner aber als 5-jaehriger Junge nach Deutschland gebracht worden um von meinen Grosseltern aufgezogen zu werden. Haber aber leider keine Verwandten mehr in Deutschland und werde wahrscheinlich nicht mehr zurueckkehren.

Ich wuensche Erika gute Verbesserung und viel Glueck fuer Euch beiden.

Der 'andere' Rudi

[haen2]

You don't know for half, how good I felt to see both of you corrsponding on line.

Do you guys realize that the three of us seem to be the only "last of the Mohikans" on the forum ???
I got wind some time ago, that nobody of the old 'Panzerjagd kommando" was alive anymore other than me, and somewhat later heard, that no-one of my Artillery battery of the Royal Netherlands Army, where I was a Battery commander, seems to be around anymore either. It's getting lonesome in the ranks.

Oh well as McArthur said: Old soldiers never die !!! ( we just smell that way )

All the best for both of you and your families, from the great Pacific Northwest.

Hugo N.