Of course, in the midst of the paperwork, there was a little wartime drama every so often down in the mine shafts, Ettlinger recalled.
"I remember once in a hallway I saw a doorway that was bricked in and no one knew what was behind it," he said. He ordered someone to find out. "And lo and behold it was nitroglycerin, which was about to come along and blow us all to kingdom come, never mind the art."
Edsel said the more he delved into the stories of the men, the more amazed he became at how little Americans seem to know about it, especially in an era with a newfound devotion to the Greatest Generation.
So, he was asked, is a feature film somewhere down the road?
He smiled and, in his best Texas dare-me voice, said not to rule it out.
"This has got heroes," he said. "It's got buried treasure. It's got untold stories. It's got everything. You want excitement? We've got it in spades right here."
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