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POPSInterview with the Evelyne Tannehill My story has great historical value for the younger generations who know next to nothing about WWII and it is written in an easy way to understand the times (WWII)
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POPSAbandoned and Forgotten - Synopsis THE POLES follow the Russians as the new occupants of our properties. After continuous ousting from our various temporary living quarters, the Germans leave my brother and me with the Polish family who has settled on our farm.
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POPSNose art Unknown Army Air Force Serviceman painting nose art on a B-24 during WW II
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POPSAbout the Author Evelyne Tannehill At present she is retired and resides part time in Reno, Nevada and Green Valley Arizona and travels extensively. She has two children and four grandchildren.
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POPSAbandoned and Forgotten Abandoned and Forgotten is the memoir of a young girl growing up in the then-German province of East Prussia by the Baltic Sea.
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POPS Living History And Sacred Soil Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the senior enlisted adviser to Gen. David Petraeus at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, spread soil collected from battlefields in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan during Operation Desert Storm and Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The soil often looms large not just as a blood-soaked symbol but as a defining reality for combatants, who become intimate with it. Mud of the trenches, black volcanic sands of Iwo, red laterite dirt of Vietnam. The stuff CSM Hill spread on the parade ground has an odd, musty taste when it rises up into the sky, blocks out the sun, turns the air yellow, orange, and finally blood-red around you, and inevitably ends up lining your mouth, nostrils and lungs.
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POPSThe President Comforts a Marine Mom A different kind of story. A family to pray for. A soldier to be honored for his commitment. Oddly, we received yesterday in a Christmas card, a previously unknown photo of Husband's uncle who was KIA over France during WW II...a young man, smiling and strong with a young boy's arms wrapped around him. His memory and service are not sullied by rants, mockery, or questions on reasons or motivations of his President. That too is comforting.
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POPSNovember 11: The Charlie Brown story.. wonderful war story This true story, untold for years and years, has become somewhat of a legend in recent years since pilot Lt. Charles Brown actually met Franz Stigler, the German pilot who, instead of shooting down Charlie Brown, led his crippled bomber back to England. Another wonderful calendar-driven story from Eric "CalendarWallah" Snyder. I love to use the Multicultural calendar to bring the richness and realities of history to life.
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POPSWW II the stuggle continues After Americans supported WW II, like the other wars the income tax should have been put down again. But since then, there has been a struggle to balance it out. That's over like 70 years!
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POPSWhere Does He Get All These Wondeful Steampunk Toys?? I admit to being rather fond (actually, enamored) with the entire Steampunk Genre. I am a fan of many of the stylings that have come from one pop culture type to another... Junk stores are doing booming business these days as people hit them up for old brass fittings, watches, horns and other things to modify and adapt. We went through a similar phase with Star Wars and other Sci-Fi things in the 70a and they returned in the last decade. Super Heroes were big merchandise money makers during the WW II years, the mid 60s, and then again the late 80s with the birth of the Batman craze following the campy antics of the 60s and the dark, Gothic feel of the movie series. Super Heroes came back in a big way with X-Men. This is what I have always heard that popular culture repeats itself every generation or so... Hold on to those Slinkys, Hula Hoops, and Slip n' Slide: we may be in for a wild ride again!
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POPSWW II "Name Trees" Inscribed By U.S. Soldiers Felled Local people are calling for the few “name trees” that still stand to be classified as historic monuments and saved from the same fate. “It should have been done a long time ago,” said Nicolas Navarro, the curator of a Second World War museum in the grounds of his family’s 13th-century Château du Taillis near by. “It’s sad and pathetic that it wasn’t.” The trees surrounded land in the heart of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest, near Rouen in Normandy, which was once home to a US army camp named after the Twenty Grand brand of cigarettes. “Basically, they spent their time carving their names into the trees with knives and bayonets,” Mr Navarro said. Mr Navarro said that more than 150 trees were felled last year, a destruction that went unnoticed beyond the district for months. He is determined now to preserve the ones that remain.
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POPSPentagon Overbudget by $295 Billion - Biggest Military Run-up since WW II More: This is not about the waste of taxpayer dollars – already pushing a trillion – in funding the Iraq war, which, while reprehensible enough, pales in comparison to the big-ticket military systems purchased in the wake of 9/11. The Government Accountability Office - The Bush Administration's worst enemy. McCain? Eight more years of Bush policies.
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POPSDoes War Influence Ingenuity? We're told that "necessity is the mother of invention," but history doesn't really bear that out. The true mother of invention is our powerful driving internal need to invent. We invent because we want to invent. It's freedom that's the real mother of invention.
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POPS"War Heroes"? Bush 41 and McCain in New Light Great article questions George HW Bush's endorsement of McCain and his "war hero" status. It's time to bust public perception, the "swift-boating" of both is already in the works, just as it was with John Kerry. Perception is not reality, and American's gullibility must come to an end. Public trust is at stake, and wanting. You have the link here on George H W Bush. Now see Vietnam Vets Against McCain.
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POPSTo Celebrate Jack LaLanne Great example of "why we're here." Maybe start a list of people like Jack who overcome, excel, serve, and educate while keeping their soul. Use it for reference when the kids wonder why we're here ~ and so they don't wander while they're here.
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