Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
As mentioned in the previous entry, I am sharing a few excerpts of stories from Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose by Simmons and Perlina.
In her memoirs, Valentina, a surgeon, tells of her hospital experience during the winter of 1941-42. "The temperature in the hospital ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I hope you had a pleasant Fourth of July celebration and managed to take time to give thanks for the remarkable men (yes, all men, but not without some advice from their wives) who created that amazing document in Philadelphia in which they pledged "to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
My neighbor just gave me this story of a true World War II women - an American nun in the jungle of the Philippines. The story goes like this.
My friend's uncle, Tommy Dixon, was a supply officer in the Army. Toward the end of the war, one of his friends came ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
While recently attending the Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Harrisburg, I received the following history of Taps from Dignity Memorial. I thought you might find it interesting.
Taps began as a revision to the signal for Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) a bugle call that was used as the final ...
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