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KENT The Garden of England Day One Part One: Chartwell
Posted on June 17, 2025 1 Comment
When we were planning a trip to England, Denise’s first desire, was to go to Canterbury and I had always wanted to see Sissinghurst Gardens. Before Covid-19 there was a 3 day tour out of London that did just that but when I was looking last year it was no longer available. So after lots […]
LONDON Day Two, Part One: Temple
Posted on June 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
Temple: from the Latin templum meaning an ‘open or consecrated space’. I had an itinerary and a plan, but that was based on traveling with someone who had not been to London before. Upon getting back last night and finding my feet and back complaining more loudly than expected I decided to revamp my plans […]
AMERICAN MILITARY RESOURCES for Genealogists
Posted on November 2, 2024 1 Comment
Please note that much of this information was put together by Veronica Walsh-Uribina for a class I host. I have added books and videos and commentary. Thank you Veronica for giving me permission to post along with some notes and resources of my own. COLLECTING POSSIBILITIES I like to start with this chart from Ancestry […]
Semper Fi: The Secrets They Kept
Posted on August 22, 2022 6 Comments
We ask our young men and woman to don the uniform and go off to fight wars in foreign lands. We mouth the words, “Thank you for your service”, but how much do we know of their losses? The wounds that we can see and the many we can’t see. The loss of friends, comrades, […]
The Challenge: Tokyo Rose
Posted on August 29, 2021 9 Comments
“We live history forward, in the chaos of onrushing events, without a clear guide, but we judge history backward, smugly armed with the knowledge of what did happen and uninterested in what might have happened.” Robert Kagan The genesis of this story began many years ago after my dad had died. He had been interviewed […]
Family Heirlooms: Dog Tags
Posted on August 20, 2021 1 Comment
Maybe you are lucky enough to have some dog tags from a family member or even yourself. For those that wore them close to their heart imagine the stories they could tell. Dog Tags or Military Identification Tags have a long history which is well chronicled here. A soldier wore identification tags so, in the […]
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