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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Routine beckons, so here I am back with twice-a-week blog entries in an attempt to help us all understand what life was like back in the early 1940’s. I welcome readers’ comments and also their stories, which I can share with others.
Today’s post comes from Bob, a friend in Lancaster, ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
One evening last week, I unexpectedly came across a TV program featuring the Oak Ridge Boys and Manhein Steamroller as they performed a fundraiser for Feed the Children. One of the groups sang the song about the first Christmas being the most inconvenient Christmas. Yes, it was full of inconveniences.
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
The previous blog about Bob mentions that he saw a Star of David on the outside of a building in Shanghai and asked the rickshaw man to let him off. When Bob entered the building, he found a compound of Russian and Polish refugees who had found a haven there ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Bob was 17 when he joined the Navy in February of 1944. After boot camp training, he was off to Hawaii where he boarded LST226, not knowing for sure where he was headed. By June 15, he was taking part in the invasion of Saipan. Following the first wave of ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Several weeks ago, the day it was released, some friends and I went to see the movie Australia. For some peculiar reason, this film has been receiving very mixed reviews. It was clear to us and to others at the theater and to a number of people to whom I ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Mr. Vice President [Henry A. Wallace], Mr. Speaker [Sam Rayburn], members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Three more memories –
Ralph vividly remembers where he was – at the Oxford Movie Theater on Rising Sun Avenue in the Burkhome section of Philadelphia watching a double feature. It wasn’t until he went out onto the street that he heard what had happened. Everyone was talking about the attack. ...
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