Monthly Family Update — November 2024
October 31, 1944 – Phil is transported 90 miles to a field hospital
October 31, 2024
November 1-2, 1944 – Phil has another procedure and writes home
November 1, 2024
Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter:
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How to change your preferences in my blog notices
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My September’s column in Today’s Christian Living magazine
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Some of my Dad’s favorite Infantry Quotes
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List of last month’s WWII blogs
First of all, Barb and I pray that you and yours will have a Christ-centered, warm-memory-creating,
family-filled Thanksgiving and Christmas season!
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1. How to change your preferences in my blog notices
There’s been some confusion among some of you who receive my blogs. There are actually TWO blogs:
- A. My HEALTH/FAMILY blog, and
- B. My WWII blog.
You have the option to receive email notices about the newest release of one or the other or both. Here’s how you let me know what you desire.
- If you want to continue to receive the notices about the WWII blogs AND the family/health blogs, you don’t have to do a thing.
- But, if you only want to get one or the other, here’s what you need to do. At the bottom of each blog email you receive, look for this new notice:
You may not have seen it. Don’t feel bad. I didn’t notice it either.
- So, if you only want one or the other, then just click on the “Update Your Subscription” tab in the next email you get from me and click on the one you want.
- If you’re only receiving emails about one of the blogs, and want both, then click on the “Update Your Subscription” tab in the next email you get from me and indicate your desire.
You can review my latest blogs in each category by click on one or the other links below.
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2. “Ask Dr. Walt” column in September’s Today’s Christian Living magazine
I enjoy penning a bi-monthly column for the readers of Today’s Christian Living magazine. Here is the link to the most recent issue, July 2024. My column, “Understanding Your Health: Six Questions to Review with Your Family Physician“ is on pages 14-15. Below are links to each of the questions in the article:
- Understanding Your Health: Six Questions to Review with Your Family Physician“ (pages14-15)
- What are the key factors influencing my overall health? (page 14)
- How often should I get routine screenings and vaccinations? (page 14)
- What should I do if I’m experiencing persistent fatigue or stress? (pages 14-15)
- How can I manage stress effectively? (page 15)
- What is the importance of maintaining a healthy weight, and how can I achieve it? (page 15)
- How can I improve my sleep quality? (page 15 and to be posted in my blog on November 6)
- More Resources for your Health (page 15 and to be posted in my blog on November 13)
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3. Some of my Dad’s favorite Infantry Quotes
These blogs, with some of my Father’s favorite Infantry quotes, were some of my most popular Army blogs of the last month:
- October 7, 1944 – Part 1 – Some of Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 8, 1944 – Part 2 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 12, 1944 – Part 3 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 13, 1944 – Part 4 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 14, 1944 – Part 5 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
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4. List of last month’s WWII blogs in my continuing series: “Where Was Phil Larimore 80 Years Ago Today?”
I’m continuing a blog on most days for the next 12 months or so following my father’s exploits and adventures during WWII. Each blog will represent what he and the men with whom he was fighting were doing 80 years ago on the exact day of the blog. Here are last month’s blogs:
- October 1, 1944 – The next month, the men could sense, was going to be hell
- October 2, 1944 – The “jungle” fighting was just beginning
- October 3, 1944 – The fighting was fierce but with slow, continuous gains
- October 4, 1944 – The weather stayed firmly on the side of the Germans and our GIs quickly bogged down
- October 5, 1944 – Poor weather favored the Germans in almost every way
- October 6, 1944 – The generals call Phil in to discuss using mules again
- October 7, 1944 – Part 1 – Some of Dad’s favorite quotes
- October 8, 1944 – Part 2 – Some of Dad’s favorite quotes
- October 9, 1944 – Audie Murphy’s poem about Anzio
- October 10, 1944 – The fight northward in France cost the lives of 600 GIs
- October 11, 1944 – The fighting intensified with increased bombardments and casualties
- October 12, 1944 – Part 3 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 13, 1944 – Part 4 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 14, 1944 – Part 5 – Some more of my Dad’s favorite Infantry quotes
- October 15, 1944 – Bruyères was the beginning of a far different kind of fight than Italy
- October 16, 1944 – A huge and successful diversion totally fools the Germans
- October 17, 1944 – To the shock of Dad and his men, General Truscott was leaving them
- October 18, 1944 – After two months of non-stop fighting, Phil and his men were exhausted
- October 19, 1944 – Our GIs exhausted by months of day and night fighting get much needed help
- October 20, 1944 – Dad’s 3rd Infantry Division begins new attacks against fresh German units
- October 21, 1944 – No post
- October 22, 1944 – General Devers takes over command
- October 23, 1944 – No post
- October 24, 1944 – Phil and his men enter the deadly Mortagne Forest
- October 25, 1944 – Phil’s mule teams designated “war horses”
- October 26, 1944 – This fight was worse than any Phil Larimore had faced before
- October 27, 1944 – Part One – Facing 600 of Germany’s best infantrymen in a battle to the death
- October 27, 1944 – Part Two – Facing 600 of Germany’s best infantrymen – Phil is seriously wounded
- October 28, 1944 – Part One – Phil defies death at point-blank range
- October 28, 1944 – Part Two – Phil defies death at point-blank range
- October 29, 1944 – Part One – The army had a regulation against dying inside an aid station
- October 29, 1944 – Part Two – Phil taken to the OR again and then wrote home
- October 30, 1944 – Phil begins his recovery
- October 31, 1944 – Phil is transported 90 miles to a field hospital
- October 2, 1944 – The “jungle” fighting was just beginning
PAST BLOG LISTS
- September 1944
- August 1944
- July 1944
- June 1944
- May 1944
- April 1944
- March 1944
- February 1944
- January 1944
Please let friends and family who are WWII aficionados know about the blog? They can sign up for it for free at www.DrWalt.com.
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5. Last Month’s Happenings
- Oct 5-13, Barb was in Baton Rouge spending time with her sister, extended family, and old friends. For Walt, it was to be a week of fasting!
- Oct 9-13, I found out that my younger brother, Phil’s, oldest boy, Jake, was killed in a terrible auto accident. I went to BTR to join Barb, to support Phil and his family, and to attend Jake’s Celebration of Life. It was a terribly sad time for all involved, including us.
- Oct 22-29, after a week home to rest and recover, we traveled to one of our favorite American cities, Chicago, for a meeting with the CRU Inner City ministry, as well as enjoying some of our favorite sites (like the Lincoln Park Zoo), a new attraction (Fly Over Chicago), and several of our old favorite restaurants. The weather, food, and fellowship were all wonderful.
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6. Upcoming Events
- Nov 12-18, Barb and I will return to Baton Rouge to support Barb’s sister as she does some house cleaning and hosts a garage sale.
- Nov 17, Barb and I will celebrate our 51st wedding anniversary in Baton Rouge.
- Nov 22-29, our Decatur, GA, clan, Scott, Jennifer, Katherine, and Sarah, will travel here to celebrate Thanksgiving week with us, Kate, and Charles. We’re SO looking forward to this family reunion.
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7. Past Three Editions
- October 2024
- Understanding Your Health: Six Questions to Review with Your Family Physician (“Ask Dr. Walt” column in September’s Today’s Christian Living magazine
- September 2024
- Oh my goodness, my daily Bible Reading/Devotion just reached 8000 subscribers
- My Dad and St. Paul
- “Ask Dr. Walt” column in July’s Today’s Christian Living magazine
- “Vaccine News You Can Use” column in Colorado Family Physician journal
- August 2024
- 50 years of membership in and service to the Christian Medical and Dental Associations
- Podcast recorded with the Lausanne Organization: Faith in Practice: A Journey in Family Medicine and Faith
- My special Father’s Day and July 4 podcast about the suffering, sacrifices, and successes on the forgotten Southern Front in WWII?
- My Father is remembered at two Colorado Springs establishments
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