Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 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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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Recently I had the opportunity to visit friends of many years who have moved to the Mid-west. Rachel has advanced Alzheimer’s disease and lives in a nursing home; Bill is slowing down somewhat and lives alone in an apartment. They manage, thanks to caring communities and because of the loving ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Janet was a high school student in a small town in central Pennsylvania during World War II. On a high hill outside of town, the Civilian Air Patrol (CAP) had a station set up to detect possible enemy airplanes.
Her dad was a carpenter and tended the family victory garden. Her ...
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Monday, August 18th, 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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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Roger, the brother of my friend Ellen, has provided a detailed account of his war experiences in Europe during 1944 and 1945. He was involved in some very heavy fighting, but he also included some incidents of a less serious nature.
While attached to a British unit, he recalls getting up ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Since our eyes and ears are very much focused on the Olympics these days, I thought it would be a good time to think about girls’ sports during the early 1940’s.
First of all, I checked to see what was happening with the Olympics back then. Not much. The 1940 Olympics was ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
2 Responses to "Wartime stockings"
I learned about the tan coloring on legs last year in social studies. I think that’s really interesting.
- Colleen
My mum who lived in Dublin, Ireland, often told me about colouring her legs with gravy browning and using an eyebrow pencil to draw on the line for ...
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