FULLERTON, Calif.—Inside Wings Café, an American aviation diner at the Fullerton Airport filled with vintage World War II décor, Matt Hunyadi, 81, recalls stories his parents and older siblings told him about their escape from Germany in 1945. Before the war ended, he and his family, forced by the Nazis, rode in the Holocaust trains with other refugees were used as shields to protect the Germans from American warplanes attacking the locomotive. At five, Hunyadi, returned to his birthplace, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, a city in the southeast on the Great Hungarian Plain, approximately 30 miles from the Romanian border. A decade later, Hunyadi protested the Stalinist government during the Hungarian Revolution until he escaped to the United States, the same country the Hungarian government told him was evil growing up. He remembers frequently wearing his rifle strapped over his right shoulder. He orders a half tuna sandwich on toasted rye bread …
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