Proud to be A Christian

Today, has been sort of well on and off, I still want to believe that Gabez & I have a chance to get the house we are looking into buying; Still the trouble is it seems like more & more bills are pilling up on this house & Gabe & I only have so much to work with.... After all we only have about 5,000 $ to work with plus an additional 3,000$ from Gabez Aunt which we will be paying her back ASAP...

Just yesterday Gabez found out that another addition in payment for the house is due... which is for him to pay 1 years worth of house insurance... Sup-prize bills like this have been poppoing up on us too close to the closing cost that I know I wont be able to deal with anymore "Surprising" Cost...

What upsets me the most is that Gabez was too stubborn to listen to me about keeping the apartments as an open option; he never even called the Luxery apartments back at all; he's so certain he can get this house... I am not bc it technechically won't be guaranteed to us until all the papers & payments are checked in... which won't be until May 30th...

If we don't get this house I'll end up having to live in my Sisters Basement for a while... which I really hope I won't end up having to do; still it is better to have a roof over my head I believe than to live in a homeless shelter... Really wish I had a Job now... This infuriates me because I am trying so hard to get through College so I can end up having a well paying job; then bf I am even finished with College...

Bam!I am getting Kicked out bc Mr. Larrabee's new Wife doesn't want me in the house, bc her son needs a place to stay... They also kicked out their Brother in Law from the house already... He is living in Texas Now... IDK y but her son obviously already has A room of his own now... Not mine but another spare room in the house, and they still want me out by the end of May... after 10 years of being in Love with Mr. Larrabee's Son Gabez plus 4 years of being in his house helping out... I no longer feel like Family to them anymore... Just with Gabez still bc We are after all in Love with eachother...

Honestly living with the Larrabees was the first time I have ever known what it was like for my first time in my life what it was like to have a family & now I feel just Like "THE HOST" from Stephenie Meyer's Book... I feel exactly how Wanderer (Wanda)/ Melanie Stryder felt ... Like an Unwanted guest except by Jeb her crazy Uncle & her brother Jamie who both seemed to believe Melanie Styder was still somehow alive inside.... If you are Unfamiliar with the book you should read it I'm on page 310 and am still having a hard time putting the book down !

Still my ultimate favorite Author Is Becca Fitzpatrick; & her Series HUSH, HUSH... If you love HUSH, HUSH her first book you'll Love the rest of her Series as well... TRUST ME !!!!! :")

~ Anna R. Davenport ~

“I am a witness to history.

“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.

If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over

the Alps rather

than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native

Austria. She was

10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching.

“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls.

She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her 11th birthday. But she

remembers.

“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.”

No so.

Hitler is welcomed to Austria

“In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was

unemployed.

We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily.

Young people were going from house to house begging for food.

Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs.

“My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need.

Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor,

hungry people –

about 30 daily.’

“We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power

since 1933.”

she recalls.

“We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime,

and they had a high standard of living.

“Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group –

Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in Germany was happy.

We wanted the same way of life in Austria.

We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and

help for the family.

Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms

back.

“Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have

Hitler for our ruler.

“We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty,

“and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades.

The new government opened up big field kitchens and

everyone was fed.

“After the election, German officials were appointed, and, like a miracle,

we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed.

The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work

Service.

“Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women.

Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the

home.

An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family.

Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs

they previously had been re- quired to give up for marriage.

“Then we lost religious education for kids

“Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school..

The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools.

The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938),

I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging

next to a Nazi

flag.

Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or

have religion

anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical

education.

“Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance.

Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum.

They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning

the first time.

The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300,

and the third time they would be subject to jail.”

And then things got worse.

“The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination.

The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so

much fun

and got our sports equipment free.

“We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

“My mother was very unhappy,” remembers Kitty. “When the next term started,

she took me out of public school and put me in a convent.

I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up

, I would be grateful.

There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political

indoctrination.

“I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays,

I went home.

I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on

and what they were doing.

“Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me.

They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for

having a baby for Hitler.

“It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly.

As time went along,

I realized what a great deed my mother did

so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic

philosophy.

“In 1939, the war started, and a food bank was established.

All food was rationed and could only be

purchased using food stamps. At the same time,

a full-employment law was passed which meant if you

didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and,

if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death.

“Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills

and often had to

take jobs more suited for men.

“Soon after this, the draft was implemented.

“It was compulsory for young people, male and female,

to give one year to the labor corps,”

remembers Kitty. “During the day, the girls worked on the farms,

and at night they returned to their

barracks for military training just like the boys.

“They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps.

After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines.

“When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends,

most of these women are emotional cripples

because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.

“Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack.

I nearly had a leg amputated, so

I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military

service.

“When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately

established child care centers.

“You could take your children ages four weeks old

to school age and leave them there around-the-

clock, seven days a week, under the total care of the government.

“The state raised a whole generation of children.

There were no motherly women to take care of the

children, just people highly trained in child psychology

. By this time, no one talked about equal rights .

We knew we had been had.

“Before Hitler, we had very good medical care.

Many American doctors trained at the University of

Vienna..

“After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone.

Doctors were salaried by the government.

The problem was, since it was free,

the people were going to the doctors for everything.

“When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m.,

40 people were already waiting and, at the same

time, the hospitals were full.

“If you needed elective surgery,

you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for

research as it was poured into socialized medicine.

Research at the medical schools literally stopped,

so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

“As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income.

Newlyweds immediately received

a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household.

We had big programs for families.

“All day care and education were free.

High schools were taken over by the government and college

tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts,

such as food stamps, clothing, and

housing.

“We had another agency designed to monitor business.

My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had

square tables.

“Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because

people might bump

themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom

facilities. It was just a

small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands.

“Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and

not many small ones

existed, it could be in control.

“We had consumer protection, too

“We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially

abolished. We had a

planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms,

count the livestock,

and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by

mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated.

“So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded.

When I arrived, I was told there were

15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work.

“I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school.

One day I looked out the window

and saw Vincent and others getting into a van.

“I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an

institution where the State Health

Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write.

The families were required to sign papers

with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months.

“They were told visits would interfere with the program

and might cause homesickness.

“As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural,

merciful death.

The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening.

Those people left in excellent

physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

“Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns.

Hitler said that the real way to catch

criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns.

Most citizens were law-abiding

and dutifully marched to the police

station to register their firearms.

Not long afterwards, the police said

that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns.

The authorities already knew who had them, so it

was futile not to comply voluntarily.

“No more freedom of speech.

Anyone who said something against the government was taken away.

We knew many people who were arrested,

not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

“Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943,

to realize full dictatorship in

Austria. Had it happened overnight,

my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we

had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles.

The whole idea sounds almost

unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.”

“This is my eyewitness account.

“It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the

Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom

and opportunity.

“America is truly is the greatest country in the world. “Don’t let freedom slip away.

“After America, there is no place to go.”

~ Kitty Werthmann ~

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