Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Not too long ago I was speaking to a group when a woman made the comment, "I guess you knew someone in the service, didn’t you?"
I was shocked. Of course I knew someone in the service. Everyone did. Off to war went our brothers, our classmates, our teachers, and our ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Speaking to a group of women the other day, I heard more stories from World War II.
One mentioned her Chesapeake Bay Retriever that served in the Army. He was a guard dog guarding German soldiers in prison camps here in our country. Fritzie survived the war, however when he came ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
German-Americans during War
In an earlier blog, I stated that German-Americans lived quite unnoticed in our communities, going about their daily business much as any other citizen. This, I said, was quite the opposite of the experience of Japanese-Americans.
The other day, while speaking at a Questers meeting, www.questers1944.org, I learned that ...
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