Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I have several World War I stories in my book, We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II; one from Lee and one from Anna.
Lee was a child living in northern New Jersey, where her father was a caretaker for an estate. When the United States became ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
In my book, We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II, stories from a number of military spouses appear. This one is from Peg (not me).
In January of 1943, shortly after their marriage, to which none of his family could attend due to gas rationing, Peg’s husband ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
See yesterday's post
Mary explained to the children how she learned that the atomic bomb had been dropped ("I heard it on the radio."), and answered questions about rationing ("you needed a coupon to buy a pair of shoes. Just because you had the money didn’t mean you could buy them."), ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Last week, I mentioned the fact that occasionally a family could have as many as five blue or gold stars on a banner hanging in their window during World War II. The family described here had six family members serving in that war. I received this information from Mary Helen ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
You may recall my entry several weeks ago about a brother who returned home after the military had notified the family that he had been killed in action. The story of this soldier, told to me by his sister Marge, does not have such a happy ending.
Frank Brown was working ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I met Grace today in the hospital where I was volunteering and where she was visiting a patient. How fortunate for me to learn that she had been in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam war.
Grace attended St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Ottumwa, Iowa. She entered the Army ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Several weeks ago, I entered memories from a friend who was in the occupation forces in Japan. Today I’ll share a story from Molly who appears in my book, We Knew We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. Following the war, her family lived in Germany, ...
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