A Great WWII Memoir


	A Great WWII Memoir

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9-7-2008 10:58 AM

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bremerton, puget sound naval shipyard, world war ii, warspite, victory gardens, barrage balloons

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Looking for a new late summer read? iPentimento suggests this memoir by Frank Wetzel about his life in Bremerton, WA during World War II.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5baece79-8567-450a-bcf3-d759c8f5c290/FA16BD92-D1A9-409B-9783-1866EB8EE8D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/" href="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/" style="font-size: 11px;">ipentimento.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/"><DIV class="mceTemp mceIEcenter">
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<DT class="wp-caption-dt"><A href="http://ipentimento.com/?attachment_id=492" rel="attachment wp-att-492"><IMG height="300" width="203" alt="Victory Gardens and Barrage Balloons" src="http://ipentimento.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wetzel-203x300.jpg" title="wetzel" class="size-medium wp-image-492" /></A></DT>
<DD class="wp-caption-dd">Victory Gardens and Barrage Balloons</DD>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/"><P>I love <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_reading" name="AdBriteInlineAd_reading">reading</A> memoirs, but I especially love reading them when they are about where I live. I just finished reading Frank Wetzel’s <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0962233773?ie=UTF8&tag=pentimento-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0962233773" name="evtst|a|0962233773">World War II memoir</A><IMG height="1" border="0" width="1" title="Remembering Bremerton During World War Ii" alt=" Remembering Bremerton During World War II" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=pentimento-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0962233773" />about growing up in Bremerton, <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_washington" name="AdBriteInlineAd_washington" href="http://click.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=719740&banner_id=10873229&variation_id=1148649&uts=1220799283&cpc=302e303536&keyword_id=23398&inline=y&zk_id=34000134&ab=168165512&sscup=564f27556679592ce701a110aa389829&sscra=48f09f80d85e6dc77a78af27aa1193fc&ub=410111736&guid=98836670d547a5db48194494d3cfa1a6&rs=&r=">Washington</A> before, during and after <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_world" name="AdBriteInlineAd_world">World</A> War II. The <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_book" name="AdBriteInlineAd_book">book</A> was <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_published" name="AdBriteInlineAd_published" href="http://click.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=719740&banner_id=12118195&variation_id=1073236&uts=1220799286&cpc=302e31&keyword_id=25381&inline=y&zk_id=34000134&ab=168165504&sscup=6dfe3bc54a5b196dfc218fc79250747e&sscra=48f09f80d85e6dc77a78af27aa1193fc&ub=410111736&guid=04a6deac17542022ebc515104faeca20&rs=&r=">published</A> in 1995, and and contains WWII era, and before, <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_photos" name="AdBriteInlineAd_photos">photos</A> of Frank and all of his <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_friends" name="AdBriteInlineAd_friends">friends</A>. One of those friends was none other than Bill Gates. No, not the <SPAN>gazillionaire</SPAN> tycoon, but his <EM><SPAN class="jFhilite">father</SPAN></EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/"><DIV class="mceTemp mceIEcenter">
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<DT class="wp-caption-dt"><A href="http://ipentimento.com/?attachment_id=495" rel="attachment wp-att-495"><IMG height="300" width="223" alt="Shirley Sinclair and Bill Gates" src="http://ipentimento.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gates-223x300.jpg" title="gates" class="size-medium wp-image-495" /></A></DT>
<DD class="wp-caption-dd">Shirley Sinclair and Bill Gates</DD>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ipentimento.com/remembering-bremerton-during-world-war-ii/"><P>Take a look at this picture from <A  id="AdBriteInlineAd_page" name="AdBriteInlineAd_page">page</A> 111 in the book. You can sure see the resemblance between father and son, can’t you? Did you know that the Gates family had an association with Bremerton, WA? “In March of 1940, Bill Gates, Sr. (grandfather to the Microsoft Bill Gates) obtained a permit to build and lease out a new Ice Creamery on Sixth Street”. I haven’t looked into it in depth, but I suspect that Bill Gates’ family were some of Washington State’s pioneers.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA16BD92-D1A9-409B-9783-1866EB8EE8D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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