(more or less...),
During World War II always referred to as "THE WAR" no matter how many had come and gone or were going on.
He set type at a Linotype machine for newspapers, made a comfortable living, and I saw him once, at about age 1 1/2 (me of course...).
By all reports he was a good man.
L.
By all reports he was a good man.
L.
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I should have said that.
His spirit of adventure and the stories that Mom told me about him opened a view of life that I might never have had, had i never known about him.. funny thing is I ended up in the printing and publishing trade for many years..
L.
it's a generational thing I think, though now veterans seem to use place names instated of conflict names, starting with Viet Nam I think.
L.
Ciara
no the linotype was just that.. a line of type, it created the slugs you'd see locked up in the 'chases' that the ink would transfer to the paper on in the old 'hot type' system.. the first shop I ever worked in had one, (and still does!).
L.
his wife, the 'Grandmother' who I knew well is another story..
Perhaps I will write a bit about 'Alvy'.
L.