Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 7th, 2008
The term "gold stars in the window" comes up a number of times in my book, We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. Gold stars, of course, designated that someone in the family had died while serving in the military. While a gold star sewed onto ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
(continued from April 2)
This is my husband's first experience with being the person left behind with the family. It's been hard on them all. He's a great father, but all children need their mothers, especially my two year old, Logan. My Mama's boy. It is difficult for us all. We've ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Through the efforts of my great-niece, Ami, whose husband Aaron is a Marine, I now enjoy corresponding with Jeannette in Iraq. When I asked her to share her story, she readily agreed. It appears here, slightly edited, and will continue tomorrow
I joined the Marine Corps in Sept 1998, right out of ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
For some time, I have wished that I had some wartime stories from the West Coast. I still don’t have any first-person accounts, but a friend did suggest I might want to write about the Japanese balloon bombs, which actually landed on the West Coast of the United States. I ...
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