Touring Pilsen, Czech Republic
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes The tours of Pilsen listed below are within easy walking...
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Tag: Veterans
National Museum of the US Army
If you’ve read many of my blogs, you know I’m partial to the history of World War II. Discovering...
Read MoreBook Review: Helmet for My Pillow
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie There are times I ask myself how I’ve never read a writer before this age and Robert Leckie is high on that list. Two amateur historians have been...
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Alex Kershaw, Award-Winning WWII Author
We first discovered author Alex Kershaw at a Friends of the World War II Memorial event in...
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Veterans, Vietnam, and Music Memories
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Note: Song lyrics cannot be used in stories, books, or blogs...
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Inspiration from the epic movie: “Gladiator”
At some point I realized that I can only make a difference in this world by having the emotions that go out from me be positive ripples instead of negative ones.
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Alex Kershaw’s, The First Wave, The D-Day Warriors and remembrance events on June 5-6, 2019
Commemorating Our D-Day Heroes – June 5 Our Washington, D.C. World War II D-Day recognition...
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Finding Ways of Coping with Life’s Losses
I feel like I have been perpetually sad since November of 2004. I’m a happy person. If you meet...
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Book Review: Fatal Error: The Final Flight of a Navy WWII Patrol Bomber
This is the true story of the cream of a World War II PBM-5 crew. It starts with a suitcase, abandoned on the sidewalk that catches the eye of a woman. She tucks the detritus of someone’s life away until connecting with Gary D. Cooper who unravels the loss of the men and weaves an intriguing tale.
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Book Review: 100 Best True Stories of World War II
This collection of stories is for any World War II history buff, for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of what our WWII Vets went through, and for any reader who wants to be thrilled and emotionally connected to the people she reads about.
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Book Review: The Letter
My copy of the paperback, as happens with books that stir my mind, is dog-eared and notated throughout.
The premise is a letter delivered upon the death of a woman where she tells an elderly man that he has a son—a son raised with a Christian fervor that excludes every other religion as inferior and requiring elimination.
The catch? The elderly man is Jewish.
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Exploring the National World War I Memorial and Museum
Did you know that the impetus to get the US into WWI was, in part, because Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico and even offered certain US territories to Mexico? Intrigued, click here to read about all the circumstances surrounding our joining the fray as well as the intercepted telegram.
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RoseMary Griffith
