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December 2, 2024
Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter: My Thanksgiving 2024 Prayer Last month’s family and health blogs: “Vaccine News You Can Use” column in Colorado […]
December 1, 2024
During his military school days at Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, MS, and in his Infantry training, Dad memorized all twenty seven of what he […]
November 30, 2024
During his military school days at Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, MS, and in his Infantry training, Dad memorized all twenty seven of what he […]
November 29, 2024
The blogs are a bit reduced in frequency while Dad is still in the hospital recovering from a severe leg wound. But, not to worry, he’ll […]
November 28, 2024
Today our children, their spouses and children, will gather together for our bi-annual family reunion and thanksgiving. In my quiet time, this Thanksgiving morning, this is […]
November 24, 2024
From Thanksgiving and the first half of December, Phil commanded platoons of Class II enlisted men—all former Class III patients—in exercises and drills meant to increase their […]
November 23, 2024
Arrangements were made for the division orchestra to play for our noon meal the next day, Thanksgiving.[1]
November 22, 2024
In the area around St. Dié, the enemy chose to withdraw t0 prepared positions in higher elevations to the east in the second Vosges line. Before […]
November 20, 2024
Dad was discharged as a patient from the 3rd General Hospital in Aix en Provence on 20 November 1944. Although his records don’t record what happened […]
November 16, 2024
The admiration that Phil, Audie, and other wounded soldiers had for their nurses was enormous—and the feeling was mutual.[1]