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"Tragedy at Graignes" tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian,
the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the
Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village.
Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen
wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white
flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid
station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in
accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops
instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the
American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the
American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed.
Captain Sophian's judgment and actions in the US Army were the
culmination of the rich and challenging life he led prior to the
Second World War. Bud's correspondence with his sister and other
Sophian archival materials tell the story of this compelling life.
These letters are reproduced verbatim in "Tragedy at Graignes: The
Bud Sophian Story" so that Bud and other authors may speak directly
to you and to the historical record.
"Tragedy at Graignes" tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian,
the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the
Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village.
Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen
wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white
flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid
station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in
accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops
instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the
American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the
American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed.
Captain Sophian's judgment and actions in the US Army were the
culmination of the rich and challenging life he led prior to the
Second World War. Bud's correspondence with his sister and other
Sophian archival materials tell the story of this compelling life.
These letters are reproduced verbatim in "Tragedy at Graignes: The
Bud Sophian Story" so that Bud and other authors may speak directly
to you and to the historical record.
This is the true story of the 1928 Wohelo camp experience of
fourteen-year-old Emily Sophian (1913-1994) of Kansas City,
Missouri.
The story is told in part through letters to her parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Abraham Sophian, and to her schoolteachers, M re Emmanuel
and M re Irene of the Roman Catholic Notre Dame de Sion School in
Kansas City.
Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded Wohelo in 1907 as the first
American summer camp dedicated exclusively to girls. Both founders
came from American Protestant missionary families.
Clad in middy, bloomers, over-the-knee stockings, and tennis
shoes, Emily chronicled with compassion and insight her struggles,
triumphs, and observations of camp life on the shores of Sebago
Lake in the backwoods of Maine.
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