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July-August 2022
Disappointments? I’ve had several in my 101 years of life. It was in January 1946, 76 years ago, at Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California, in the Bay Area.
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May-June 2022
“Land ahoy!” Who among the super-happy GIs on board would be the first to shout out those magic words? Our good ship, the MS President Monroe, steadily plodded toward the Golden Gate of California.
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March-April 2022
January 1, 1946: Happy New Year! Heartfelt salutations and greetings echoed from bow to stern on board the MS President Monroe. For the first time in 10 years no shots were fired in anger, no bombs were dropped, no torpedoes were launched.
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November-December 2021
Christmas 1945: We were on the high seas, en route to San Francisco, more than 4,000 happy and giddy GIs, all survivors of months and months in the Southwest theater of operations.
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September-October 2021
It is 1945—the new scenario is “What if….”
What if there was no mushroom cloud over the city of Hiroshima on August 6 or the seaport of Nagasaki on August 9 or Tokyo was mum, with zero announcements over its NHK radio network on August 15?
What if there was no mushroom cloud over the city of Hiroshima on August 6 or the seaport of Nagasaki on August 9 or Tokyo was mum, with zero announcements over its NHK radio network on August 15?
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July-August 2021
Flashback to the year 1945: The 42nd Army General Hospital on Leyte was huge! Two months after arriving via hospital plane from Mindanao and into the intensive care unit, I felt better but not strong.
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May-June 2021
Back to circa 1941: Dick’s House finally released me on December 11. The surprise and stunning news of Pearl Harbor was still in the air.
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March-April 2021
It is Sunday, December 7, 1941. It is chilly and gloomy outside, warm and cozy inside. I was in Dick’s House, admitted three days earlier with fever and flu. There was no more golf and tennis and I was looking forward to indoor squash.
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January-February 2021
It was the year 1945. World War II officially ended on the deck of the USS Missouri, where the peace treaty was signed on Sunday, September 2, in Tokyo Bay. I was one of thousands of U.S.
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November-December 2020
Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippines. It is 35,537 square miles of mountains, valleys, and farmlands. It is double the size of a combined Vermont and New Hampshire.
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September-October 2020
Coronavirus, shelter-at-home, social distancing—never in my lifetime (I just turned 100) did I dream we, as a nation, would be capitulating to an invisible disease.
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July-August 2020
It was the summer of 1942, and our senior year was a conflict of anxiety and uncertainty. Nobody in our class knew what exactly the future held. Where would we be in 12 months, or 24, or 36?