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Christmas Dinner and a Little Hanukkah Love
Gentle Friends, last night we attended a lovely Christmas Eve service at Most Holy Redeemer, then we got home a little after 11pm and watche...
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Gentle friends, sorry to be away for so long and I do appreciate all the concerned emails and comments... I am recovering slowly but steadi...
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Gentle Friends I will be away from the Blog for the next couple of weeks - as my mother who had been sick over the last week - went from...
My Dad loved to say he was the last person in Washington, DC to know about Pearl Harbor. He had a job washing dishes; Sunday was his day off. He'd be at the Smithsonian as soon as it opened and spend the day at the museum, making up for being educated in a tiny school in Appalachia. He noticed the museum was quiet that day, but thought nothing of it. When he left the museum at closing time, the city was going nuts; people on the streets talking a mile a minute, yelling on the buses. He finally got somebody to tell him what was going on, and it made no sense until he got back to his boarding house and found somebody to tell him what Pearl Harbor was. He'd spent the whole day looking at fossils - which if you knew my Dad, was classic.
ReplyDeleteVery true Edgar. I watched a show on history today about WWII.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Edgar.
ReplyDeleteMy mom and my grandmother were living in Brooklyn, had just returned from attending Mass and were making an early Sunday dinner (a Sunday tradition in my grandmother's house) when the announcement was heard on the radio re: Pearl Harbor. My mother turned to my grandmother and said, "Where the hell is Pearl Harbor?" Years later when I related that story to my MIL she couldn't believe it... she was living in San Francisco then and knew exactly where Pearl Harbor was................
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