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Jolene
- May 18, 2021
Men of Honor, Part 5: A Soldier of the West
This week is the final (for now at least) installment in the current series about Men of Honor. Most medal of honors come from a...
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Jolene
- May 11, 2021
Men of Honor, Part 4: A Little Drummer Boy
In the first three parts of this series, I have told the stories of three medal of honor recipients who fought in World War II. All...
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Jolene
- Feb 23, 2021
A Passion for Music
For my family, holidays and summers are often filled with as much music as possible. We will play and sing together. When I attended...
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Jolene
- Feb 9, 2021
A Love of Math
As a teenager, my husband spent many hours diving into books about the NASA space program. Because of this he wanted to share one of his...
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Jolene
- Feb 2, 2021
“Ain’t I a Woman?”
When most of us think of February, we think of love, which often comes with the idea of roses, chocolate and romance. Besides being a...
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Jolene
- Dec 29, 2020
And A Partridge in a Pear Tree!
In reading the title of this post most of you probably had a tune along with those words. But have you ever wondered why it is called...
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Jolene
- Dec 22, 2020
Gifts of Change
Many of us have probably at one point or another heard of the Christmas truce of World War One. The story of soldiers crossing in to no...
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Jolene
- Nov 24, 2020
Nun Danket Alle Gott - {Now Thank We All Our God}
"Nun danket alle Gott mit Herzen, Mund und Händen, der große Dinge tut an uns und allen Enden, der uns von Mutterleib und Kindesbeinen an...
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Jolene
- Nov 10, 2020
Armistice Day - of Poppies and Poetry
At the 11 hour, on the 11 day of the 11 month (1918) the guns of World War One fell silent. It had been a "war to end all wars". That...
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Jolene
- Oct 20, 2020
Lizzie - A Sweetheart's Name
There are many stories of soldiers making tokens for their sweethearts while they are away at war. These tokens are made not only as a...
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Jolene
- Oct 14, 2020
O Say Can You See... Laundresses?!
When our National Anthem is considered, one probably thinks of the soldiers bravely firing cannons on a cold dark night in September or...
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