Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Please permit me one more day to remember Memorial Day.
I’m fairly certain that most people my age, and even some younger people, heard this poem in elementary school, and many of us memorized it. It was written to memorialize the battle of Ypres during the first World War, long ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I usually write my posts a few days in advance and, in some cases, I manage a whole week’s entries at one sitting. Not so today.
It is now Memorial Day 2008 in the mid-afternoon. I have been to a pancake breakfast, walked in a small portion of the community parade, ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
This past week, Stephen Colbert had as one of his guests Andrei Cherny, the author of The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour. In spite of the silliness of Colbert's interview, I did learn something about the period following World War II when Russia placed ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
All of the following material has come from an article by Mike Argento in the York Sunday News.
Toward the end of World War II, the Stewartstown Fairgrounds were converted into a Prisoner of War camp. German prisoners were housed there during the summers of 1944 and l945, although they were ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Not long ago, an acquaintance sent me an article concerning German POWs who spent their summers in York County, Pennsylvania working in the fields and in the canneries dotting the southern part of the county. During the winter months they were stationed at Fort Indiantown Gap, now the site of ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
It’s difficult to believe that I have written almost 60 entries in this blog. These have included a wide range of subjects including rationing of food items, gas, shoes, and other items; military spouses; service personnel in Iraq; relocation camps for Japanese, Germans, and Italians; Army nurses, newsmen who reported ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Sylvia Goldstein Croll was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After war broke out in 1941, Sylvia approached her father about wanting to join the WAAC – Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps – later changed to WAC – Women’s Army Corps. She had no brothers who could enlist, a factor in ...
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