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What happened to you mother? After you went to Yerevan did you ever see her again? Did you see any of your family? Do you know what happened to them?

Were you alone on your journey to the American lines? How did you convince the Americans that you weren't German?

Do you have anything from your time in Armenia or from the war? I would love to see pictures of anything you've kept for that long!

Thanks for doing this AMA, and thanks to the two of you for putting the effort in to get his story out there.

This is so interesting :)

I'm really glad you got to see your mother and your other family members again! Have they ever considered moving to the US as well?

This is awesome!

Exciting that Nancy was there! And that chick (Gretchen Wilson I guess), who I initially thought would be Anne's daughter or something, fucking nailed the vocals. No relation, but damn.

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Just because it isn't taught at the school doesn't mean the students can't learn and apply it. I was on my university's FSAE team (like this team but a fuel burning race car instead) and I was using industry software and learning things about suspension for 3 years and for my 4th year project I designed (with 2 others) the complete aerodynamics package (which included a ridiculous front and rear wing, side pods, and the chassis shape optimization) but none of this was taught at my school. From my experience on the team alone I was using an academic supercomputing network to run parallel CFD simulations with the many different configurations we wanted to simulate. There is definitely an advantage when your school has, say, access to a full size wind tunnel, but the opportunity for the students to learn and be involved in different aspects of these vehicles is unparalleled experience. Some years all it takes is a couple people who want to learn everything about everything and a team with no funding can be incredibly competitive. The opposite can happen too, when a team with lots of funding loses good people and the team makes basically the same car again the next year. You get judged on your designs too so even with no official courses the amount of knowledge on the team should increase every year (this is a big part of the teams continued success) and eventually it's like you've made your own little courses for the different areas of the vehicle. 10/10 would get thrown into subjects I know nothin about again.