Tag: history

Book 3: WWII research, POW Nurses, Bataan

Posted on December 27, 2019 by

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While conducting research about the American WWII nurses who survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific, Mary Cronk Farrell’s Pure Grit is informative and detailing. In January 1941, orders are given for the U.S. Army General Hospital no.2, to move ten miles down a…

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The Swastika

Posted on December 1, 2016 by

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It is a great irony in World History. That a symbol of peace and well-wishes should signify hate and encapsulate the pain of WWII. The Swastika has an ancient history as a symbol of peace used around the world. To my students, this is…

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Violence and Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 13, 2015 by

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I teach U.S. History, World History, Holocaust Studies, and Recent World History. IT is heavy.  I read scholarly books and novels about it. I watch documentaries and films about it. I attend conferences, create stories, and talk to colleagues about it. With my students,…

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Today I’m happy.
BOOK ONE: It all begins in 1900.

Illinois mining, riot & murder

BOOK 2: Inside The Gold-Plated Pistol

It’s 1928. German Expressionism, the Western & Hollywood musical

Book 3: Set in 1942, two Jewish sisters from Minneapolis end up in the Philippines. One becomes a POW nurse. The other is a spy.

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Words I take to heart

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.--Milton Berle

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.