Granny shoots some German prisoners

[TxD]

Just thought this was funny.........don't know why.

"During World War II, for example, three German submariners escaped from Camp Crossville, Tennessee. Their flight took them to an Appalachian cabin, where they stopped for a drink of water. The mountain granny told them to "git." When they ignored her, she promptly shot them dead. The sheriff came, and scolded her for shooting helpless prisoners. Granny burst into tears, and said that she would not have done it if she had known they were Germans. The exasperated sheriff asked what in "tarnation" she thought she was shooting at.
"Why," she replied, "I thought they was Yankees.""

Sourced to Arnold Krammar, Nazi Prisoners of War in America (New York, 1979), p. 133

[rmr1923]

lol sounds like something my grandma would do. she used to sit on her front porch in the evenings with a 12 gauge on her lap.

[The Annoyed Man]

That is kind of funny, although a granny confronted by three trespassers who refuse to "git" may not need the justification of "yankees" or "german prisoners" to draw down on them.