I have always been fascinated with history and little known facts are all the more intriguing. Like many people today, I find it more and more difficult to find time to do much reading for pleasure. In this blog, I hope to pluck little historical facts out of various resources and present them on the calendar date today based on the significant date in history.
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I love looking for those little known facts and I know a lot of other people who enjoy reading them as well. Sounds like a great idea for a blog. Pleased to meet you.
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Thanks. I like your posts too. My father served in WWII in the Navy on board the USS Hornet CV-12. We lost him when we were all pretty young so I never had the opportunity to hear his WWII stories. I pieced together his time on the Hornet through muster rolls from Ancestry.com so I know what battles he went through but it is not the same as first hand stories.
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Do you plan to post this info? I think it deserves attention.
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I am not sure I could do it justice. I could use a Presidential Citation that he received as a member of the Hornet’s crew as a basis of a story I guess. I could also write it from the point of an family tree researcher so the fact that my story comes from a collection of facts and not personal stories would be OK.
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Yes, of course. Take a look at what Pierre Legace does (he has more than one blog on the WWII subject), he’s an excellent friend and talented.
http://steanne.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/richard-eric-grinndal-1919-1944/
I’m sure he can answer any of your questions.
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Thanks for visiting my blog and liking. I’m looking forward to reading your historical gems! 🙂
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Thanks. My husband and I have been building a family tree on Ancestry.com for a few years now but I love the way you have turned yours into stories posted here. I recently started a WordPress blog that tells my father’s WWII story that he never told since he passed away when I was a child.
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Hi there… glad to connect and interact with you… 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Best wishes to you.
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The photographs are wonderful.
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You should develop insomnia – you’ll increase your reading time no end! Ann 🙂
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i look forward to exploring your blog. i love those little known nuggets of intrigue…
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Thank you
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hi there! i love this blog! 🙂 x
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thank you
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HI and thanks so much for visiting my site! Glad you liked the story. Your blog is so cool and quite unique. I especially love The World’s Outstanding Women. I will definitely come back for a visit.
Thanks again.
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I’m glad I’ve stumbled across your blog. I’m a bit of a history geek. 😀 You’ve got a nice place here… think I’ll visit often.
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Thanks and welcome.
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One cannot understand the present without understanding the past. Great site 🙂
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Thank you
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Beautiful blog, and I love that you are sharing your family’s history and that of others with us.
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Thank you
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Wonderful blog. Glad I came across it. My father was an MP in England during WWII. I get very excited when I find anything regarding his service on Ancestry.com. He passed away over 20 years ago and I’m very sorry I never bugged him more about sharing his stories.
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I think the regrets over loved ones stories is all too common. There is a big push to document WW2 living history because soon it will be gone forever. A few years ago, my brother-in-law made a living history interview with my mom and her immigration to the US. We’ll have it forever and it was special to have it shown during her viewing when she passed this year.
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I have nominated you for The Versatile Bloggers Award – http://14weeksworthofsocks.com/2015/05/12/the-versatile-bloggers-award/ – you don’t need to do anything with this if you don’t wish to, but I wanted to let others know what a great blog you have.
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Thank you. I will check it out when I get home.
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Thank you for the honor. I really appreciate it. Many of the blogs I follow would probably not accept and act on awards such as this because of the nature of their blog so I will leave it at a thank you for nominating me.
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Completely understood! 🙂
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What a fresh and clever idea. This is going to be fun.
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Greetings!
Your poem ‘Iron Bottom Bay’ is complete.
I have a copy which was my Dad’s.
He was one of the wounded survivors of the USS ASTORIA CA-34.
I do have other info to share, if interested.
Thank You for keeping our military history alive!
Sue Bandeen
Oregon
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Wow that is amazing. Though very sad, I am sure he had an amazing story to tell. Thanks for reading.
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Hi Maryann, I enjoy your blog posts. In your A to Z Challenge of books, may I recommend one for you? The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring is the story of a woman who discovers that her mother was friends with Eva Braun when they young and lonely in Nazi Germany. The book is “A Novel of Legacies that Outlast War.” I hope you enjoy it.
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Ooh that sounds good. I will check it out. Thanks for reading
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Thanks for the follow, Maryann. 🙂
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I am interested in the map you have posted that shows LZ Carol and Hamburger Hill. I am a game designer and I would like to request permission to use it.
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I would have found it on the internet so I would like to help you find who to get permission from. Could you tell me the title of my post that included the map.
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I thought I might be dreaming, but I came here after Googling ‘Steel Pier Diving Bell,’ and VOILA…there it is! But I remember how disappointing it was to me, not at all like the bell on the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! Anyhoo, thanks for the Diving Bell pic! 🙂
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Hi Maryann,
Great blog. May I use a photo (the one of the space shuttle Enterprise with waving crowd in foreground) for a personal project.
Thank you,
Mikki
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Sure. I am not the owner of the photo. If you tell me the title of my post, I can see if I can find the source. I may have already posted the source in the caption
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Hi there, I am interested in one of the caricatures with the name “down doormat” which is from the world war. Basically, I need all the info regarding it – Who is the author of the caricature , when was made and etc. Could you please help me with it? Thanks in advance!!
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