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World War II blog

Memorial Day is coming, and graves will be decorated.  But the longer we are from World War II, the few

B-17 on Bomb Run

 It was

World War II is thought of as the ‘great’ war, the one that Americans fought for globa

Rosha Duchen 1938

I was born, just months before D-day, into a family that thought it best not to talk

BLOG ON WW-IIWars often shapes the values of a generation…For my generation it was Viet Nam.

I have a heartbreakingly young photograph of my Polish grandfather in his midshipman white Navy uniform.  The original has an inscription on the back to my grandmother, my photo is a copy.

I grew up in a Navy town; my father was a veteran of World War Two, a Marine.  Most of his friends were veterans; my friends' fathers were veterans.  They'd served in different theaters, differen

One day in the orange glow of a late aftern

World War II was, for me, a mixture of happy and sad times.