Pearl Harbor | Pearl Harbor
Dec.06.2012
Today I recieved E-mails from the Legion and other Military Organizations which I belong to reminding me that tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Day.Sitting here in my office a while ago thinking about that and other days of remembrance we now "Celebrate?" What is it exactly that we should do? Of course I...
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Oct.01.2012
It helped that my traveling partner was a travel agent, of sorts. He was actually a successful banker who dabbled in travel to accentuate the perks he'd already accumulated as a banker and national master's golf champion.
No, not that Master's. He was just a good golfer who won the national...
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Dec.07.2011
"December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy."~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I stumbled upon the 40's music station on my Sirrus radio a few months back. I listen to the music of the 1940's while commuting to and from work.
As I listened this morning, I was thinking about how the songs of...
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Nov.01.2011
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In the years preceding America's entry into World War II, a quiet Georgia town called Salty Creek is home to a peculiar and risky romance.
For quite some time, only polite and brief exchanges were ever had between a spinster named Sophie and Miss Anne's courteous and...
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May.26.2011
Is war ever really "good?" I suppose there are "good" reasons to fight a war but I feel very ambivalent about calling any war "good."
Working at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, I have read many books, done a great deal...
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May.25.2011
World War II was before my time, but in the many years I was in school I studied about the conflict. The History Channel allows my husband, who is fascinated with this time period, a chance to continue learning more. I've read several fictional titles set during or after WWII.
My most personal...
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May.25.2011
A sunny winter day in peaceful suburban Philadelphia.
I'm shooting marbles on the dining room floor with Victor Bean's kid sister, Carol. Dad is minding us while mom attends one of her neighborhood Republican Committee meetings. He sits in the living room listening to the Grundig floor model...
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May.13.2011
It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American Naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy...
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Dec.07.2010
President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his speech asking Congress to declare war on Japan sixty-nine years ago tomorrow, "Yesterday, December 7, 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...
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Jul.13.2010
I AM HELD HOSTAGE BY THE MOB/ARTIE'S AMAZING STORY
One shiny suit takes my car keys. The other pokes me with a hairy finger.
"Go."
They walk me down a dark, narrow ramp, bumping me back and forth between them. My legs buckle, my mouth goes dry. They breathe hard like they're angry....
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