Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
When I stopped by a friend’s house last week, she had material spread all over the living room floor. Amy was making preparations for designing a quilt. She was quite willing to stop her work to answer my questions about her memory of World War II.
She is about ten years ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Last week, while wandering around the juvenile book section of the library, a display book caught my eye. I was with my severn-year-old granddaughter and the book was My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, by Mary Pope Osborne. I learned that it is part of ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Sitting next to me at the Reading World War II weekend was Dorothy Vyrne Lashinsky and her husband Frank of Cornwall PA. Dorothy's beautiful counted cross stitch of a B24 attracted considerable attention. As people stopped to talk to her, they ended up spending a lot of time talking with ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I was a soldier, a fighter tried and true.
You don't rememer me, but I was there for you.
I had my share of combat, I saw the blood and gore,
But somehow I'm forgotten when they tell about the war.
I was just a frightened kid, right out of school.
When I volunteered to ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I had planned to write in my blog last evening after returning from a visit with family in North Carolina, but I made the mistake of tuning into the U.S. Open. That took care of my evening. I'm watching the playoff right now, but I think I can watch and ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I attended the World War II Weekend at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. I was there to sell my books We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. What an experience it was!
Thousands upon thousands of people. A hangar full of ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
My book group has just read The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman. It is a fantastic story of a husband and wife, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran a large zoo in Warsaw, Poland before World War II, before the Jewish community was threatened by Nazi racism. ...
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