Now that we are moving closer to the DAM’s centerfold, it means that there are fewer of us left to recall events of this great generation, your generation. Your stories need to be told so they won’t be lost to future generations. Members of the retirement home Kendal at Hanover have told their stories in a publication called Word War II Remembered. This book was inspired by a similar work, Our Great War, published three years ago by residents of a retirement community. Maybe someone would like to recall some of the events of our class of Dartmouth 1945. How about it, fellows? I also know that many want to forget, and that is certainly well understood.


This was the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, not to be forgotten. Carol Allen,widow of Bob Allen,wrote this poem, “12/7,” and has allowed me to share it with you.


They were the first that golden morning


when the red sun rising


caressed our dying youth


in Hawaii’s ravaged harbor.


the first after the final ones at


Yorktown, Appomattox, Santiago, Argonne


the first before those now lost in


Pusan, Saigon, Baghdad, Kabul


this day we hear the cries of their unborn


and we weep.


I certainly would appreciate hearing from some of you ladies and gentlemen. Hope you will give me some info on you and where you are and what you are doing now.


—Rosalie Cutter, 14 Sterling Springs, White River Junction, VT 05001-2970; rosalie.45a@alum.dartmouth.org