A different sort of stash
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... here is a bit of local history, we uncovered this newspaper spread from 1942 when we were renovating the house.
It was fused to the floorboards, probably at the time the shed attached to the back of the house was converted into a kitchen.
Poignant, trying to put a positive spin, for new brides after all, but between the lines, "... many couples, especially if he is in the service, are choosing the double ring option, an engagement ring for now, and the wedding ring later, when you can better afford it (and he makes it back)"
photographed it before pulling up the floorboards. Turned out the joists were no longer seated in the original rubble wall foundation, and many were cracked!
It was fused to the floorboards, probably at the time the shed attached to the back of the house was converted into a kitchen.
Poignant, trying to put a positive spin, for new brides after all, but between the lines, "... many couples, especially if he is in the service, are choosing the double ring option, an engagement ring for now, and the wedding ring later, when you can better afford it (and he makes it back)"
photographed it before pulling up the floorboards. Turned out the joists were no longer seated in the original rubble wall foundation, and many were cracked!
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Love it! Keep it coming @BarleyBop !
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Went to my mom's funeral last year. And I was gifted with this small token about my mother's brother, my uncle Warren. I knew that he was one of three of my uncles that were injured in the Pacific theater in WWII. Uncle Warren was always tight lipped about the war and never would tell us about it. Mom and dad told me to never ask him about it, as I was a child when I would see him.
In the picture, my uncle Warren is on the left and my grandfather, 'Grampa Miller' is on the right.
I'm in my 60's now so everyone from back then is gone.
My uncle Glenn was shot at the Japanese attack at Pearl. He was in the Navy. And he never talked about it either.
My uncle Mert was also a Marine in the Pacific theater. He never talked about it.
My aunt Faith was a woman Marine, stateside. She never had too much to say about the war.
My uncles never bought Toyotas or Datsuns when they came to the states in the 1970s. ... to say the least.
My mom and I both had subscriptions to a magazine called WWII. Until many years ago. We used to talk monthly on the phone about the articles in it.
Be well. Model on.
Eric
In the picture, my uncle Warren is on the left and my grandfather, 'Grampa Miller' is on the right.
I'm in my 60's now so everyone from back then is gone.
My uncle Glenn was shot at the Japanese attack at Pearl. He was in the Navy. And he never talked about it either.
My uncle Mert was also a Marine in the Pacific theater. He never talked about it.
My aunt Faith was a woman Marine, stateside. She never had too much to say about the war.
My uncles never bought Toyotas or Datsuns when they came to the states in the 1970s. ... to say the least.
My mom and I both had subscriptions to a magazine called WWII. Until many years ago. We used to talk monthly on the phone about the articles in it.
Be well. Model on.
Eric
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Semper Fidelis!
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Please keep posting this history!!
Nothing weird, it is History. We may all be mandated by a dictatorship to type in Japanese or German if the boys didn't go fight!
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Thanks for the stories from your lives.
Real history isn't in books.
It's not on the internet.
It's in the stories and memories that we share with our families, our friends and our neighbours.
... and our hobby gives voice to some of those stories.
Real history isn't in books.
It's not on the internet.
It's in the stories and memories that we share with our families, our friends and our neighbours.
... and our hobby gives voice to some of those stories.
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@BarleyBop , Real History is at home. But what you are showing us in the thread is THE NEXT BEST genuine article for history buffs!
Thank you.
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Regarding my earlier post including historical documents, and the posted information and documents about my personal family:
In this day and age one cannot be too careful; So I will clarify - that this is an illustration of real history in very different times than we have now.
I do not carry grudges, as I own Japanese and German vehicles and cookware and what-have-you. Hello! One side of my family is Miller.... Mueller... which is German!
It is about the history of the largest war, as of yet, known to humankind.
I do not endorse, or use, the slang or derogatory names used by the media back then for the enemy. It was very much a different time then, and everything was on the line.
With that being said. If it comes down to saving your country, spouse, family from evil.... even in today's world... all bets are off.
In this day and age one cannot be too careful; So I will clarify - that this is an illustration of real history in very different times than we have now.
I do not carry grudges, as I own Japanese and German vehicles and cookware and what-have-you. Hello! One side of my family is Miller.... Mueller... which is German!
It is about the history of the largest war, as of yet, known to humankind.
I do not endorse, or use, the slang or derogatory names used by the media back then for the enemy. It was very much a different time then, and everything was on the line.
With that being said. If it comes down to saving your country, spouse, family from evil.... even in today's world... all bets are off.
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BarleyBop
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No worries.
Military history is a special category of interest.
It can quickly become personal for a lot of people.
But I understand.
A very good friend of mine in his eighties put things in perspective: he was sent to an internment camp for Japanese Canadians out west; for a little boy it was an adventure; his parents lost everything.
In Canada, the French/English split was a very real thing. The 'Two Solitudes'.
My dad's father could not serve.
My mom's father would not serve.
The one from Cape Breton, and sidelined for the Great War. Not a lot of love for what was perceived by his generation in the maritimes as a shameful relegation of duty by some French Canadians, resulting in more of their numbers brought up to the front, they believed.
The other listened to the Priests who proclaimed from the pulpit that it was an English War, a Protestant war, an unholy war, that we had no business there and to go into the deep woods and lumber camps.
When my dad fell for the French canadian girl of his dreams, those two men were destined to meet.
I saw them together; they were both family men of integrity, and they became friends.
I heard them laugh, and felt their eyes on me: from the one I learned the love of music, language and art; from the other, how to build with my hands and the satisfaction of seeing plants grow, of trying to understand how things work.
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I had to go find the money I had left from my only trip to Canada in 1998 for that to be useful, though
