Tag: wwii
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January 30, 2007 08:52 AM EST --
How 600 American prisoners of the WW II German army escaped almost certain annihilation just days before the end of the war.
This is a true story and takes place in Stalag IX A in central Germany. . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
*SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH OR MAY NOT REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II WITH THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, . . .
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October 27, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday lucky me-ee
Happy birthday tooo meee!
I was born in a hospital in Norwalk Conn. 86 years ago today. When I was 4 years . . .
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August 07, 2008 08:29 PM EDT --
Although sometimes I dislike living in Maryland it does have its advantages. I am so close to so much history and of course our nations capital is full of that too. I am fortunate that . . .
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June 22, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
On this day, June, 22, 1941, Hitler's troops intruded the Soviet territory and the war - which we call the Great Patriotic War - began. The war which took lives of more than 26 million of my fellow . . .
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November 27, 2007 09:23 AM EST --
Good Day Gather Friends,
Yesterday, I was making my weekly stop into my VA hospital. I needed to pick up some meds and so I headed . . .
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August 17, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
An elderly Italian man who lived on the outskirts of
Rimini, Italy, went to the local church for confession.
When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, The man said: "Father . . .
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March 22, 2008 08:40 PM EDT --
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; . . .
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September 12, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
I have this photograph on my bulletin board. It came to me in a box of assorted photos and albums from my late mother-in-law. Although I am not related to these people, I am strangely attached . . .
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March 21, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
What would you have done if you were an ordinary German citizen during World War II? Would you have risked your life to hide some Jews? Or turned them in? Would you have joined the Resistance? . . .
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July 28, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
Imagine being killed by a bomb from WWII.
It can still happen.
In England, workers unearthed an unexploded but live German bomb that was dropped from the air during WWII.
This is not a rare event, . . .
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June 06, 2008 06:00 AM EDT --
Today, in 1944, the U.S. invasion of Normandy began.
This started the effort to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
A great many men lost their lives in this invasion.
In . . .
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August 06, 2008 12:36 PM EDT --
Day 1: "Our dog'll ‘ave your cat," said the neighbor. And indeed, their dog did have a reputation--teeth like shrapnel, and eyes as piercing as the air-raid sirens at night. But . . .
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October 27, 2006 02:18 PM EDT --
The article below was authored by Henry Mark Holzer, a Korean war veteran serving with Army Intelligence. He subsequently spent 47 years as a lawyer practicing constitutional and . . .
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November 28, 2006 07:15 AM EST --
From Micheal Moore:
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Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Friends,
Tomorrow marks the day that . . .
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March 17, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Oh homemaker
boilermaker
three lined obituary!
How you puzzle me.
Did they call you Margie?
Or Margerita? Did your
husband go to war
and leave you waiting breathless
until inspired by
patriotism, . . .
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July 15, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
The Worst Jobs of My Life
My working life started right after graduation from high school in 1940 when I was 18 years old. I had worked as a waitress and an upstaris maid during the summer, . . .
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September 10, 2007 08:14 PM EDT --
Today started out to be a normal day. Stupid mistakes by me and the other shift person yesterday made doing the daily reports fun again. least these boo boos were easy to fix. One of . . .
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March 15, 2006 07:56 PM EST --
This article was written in response to the Two Words Group Weekly Challenge "Night's Revenge."
I am by nature, a caretaker of books. They line our shelves, stand in what I can only hope . . .
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March 28, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Yes, he was....to animals. He loved dogs. While fighting in WWI, he had a dog named Fuschl, who was trained to run up and down ladders. The dog was stolen from him. During WWII, he had a dog named Blondi. . . .
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