Posts filed under ‘About My Family’
One American Veteran’s Memory of the Battle of the Bulge
“One thing I noticed, that the Argonne Forest, so many bullets had gone through there that the trees were mostly stumps. Very few branches on the trees there…”
Keeping Immigration in Perspective
“Immigration is not a new story in this country. Almost all of our families came from somewhere else…”
One American Veteran’s D-Day Story
“…being a medic, in the front lines…we were shelled a number of times…Just goes with the territory…”
Lafayette, voila mes oncles…
…a couple of older gentlemen stopped and asked me if I needed help. When I answered in my far-from-perfect French, they knew I was a foreigner. “American?” they asked, and I nodded. Their faces broke into wide, warm smiles, they shook my hands enthusiastically, they practically embraced me. “We fought with your father, your uncles,” they said. “We fought with them, side by side…”
A belated, but heartfelt, thanks to my Mom
..it wasn’t until after she died and I had to learn how to live my life without her that I realized how critical my mother’s continuing existence had been to my own.
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 