Very interesting ! My father was in the US Navy during WW II (Pacific Theater). As were a number of his siblings. I am a female Vietnam Era veteran. I had the honor of working with the first woman in the US Navy to earn her wings of gold. ( Naval Aviator). I grew up interested in the Holocaust and was very close to an Auschwitz survivor . I was a middle school librarian so it was my honor to teach the entire 7th grade each year about the Holocaust . Of course I included Sir Nicolas Winton… the British Schindler . History has always been a passion of mine; you’re the one who steered me to the Plantagenets . I’m grateful. Thank you for sharing this .
As always, thanks Dan! I love history in every age. I especially love art made from meager supplies. I work with a correctional facility and I'm always fascinated with the projects these folks come up with, prison tattoos aside, the drawings and items made from wrappers and foil, even toilet paper!
My great-uncle, along with the rest of his team, became POWs in a German camp. It was fairly early in the war (1940/41 I think). When my great-aunt found out about it and that nothing was actively being done to save them, she wrote anyone and everyone who was high up in the Canadian government and the armed forces, she went to the newspapers, she did everything she possibly could to bring her husband home. Eventually the government, to avoid anymore bad press, launched a rescue mission. It took a few years of pestering and then waiting, but in late '43 her husband was home, as well as several others.
Tenko! Some of you might remember the diaries of some of the British women interned by the Japanese were published in the late 70s and turned into a multi-series award-winning TV show in the 80s. It’s still around on DVD, and I recommend it highly. Also the fantastic BBC adaptation of A Town Like Alice from 1980, which gave America Bryan Brown.
It’s really interesting to me that the British didn’t shy away from artistic endeavors about WWII captivity (after an appropriate distance, perhaps) but Americans, in general, have.
Oh boy, you invoked the name of James I of Scotland……tennis ball sewer James…one of my very favorite Stewarts. I forgot that his story is intertwined with Henry the Fifth. I can’t seem to find enough on him, he’s always a foot note in someone else’s story and he shouldn’t be.
Impressed with your skill of random connectivity. You never cease to pack so much more into every subject! Fascinating how you trace so far into things which most people can only grasp when a person like you bring them magically to the forefront of the brain. Thank you❣️
Very interesting ! My father was in the US Navy during WW II (Pacific Theater). As were a number of his siblings. I am a female Vietnam Era veteran. I had the honor of working with the first woman in the US Navy to earn her wings of gold. ( Naval Aviator). I grew up interested in the Holocaust and was very close to an Auschwitz survivor . I was a middle school librarian so it was my honor to teach the entire 7th grade each year about the Holocaust . Of course I included Sir Nicolas Winton… the British Schindler . History has always been a passion of mine; you’re the one who steered me to the Plantagenets . I’m grateful. Thank you for sharing this .
As always, thanks Dan! I love history in every age. I especially love art made from meager supplies. I work with a correctional facility and I'm always fascinated with the projects these folks come up with, prison tattoos aside, the drawings and items made from wrappers and foil, even toilet paper!
Very interesting of all these brave people. Thank you for sharing your travels with us!
My great-uncle, along with the rest of his team, became POWs in a German camp. It was fairly early in the war (1940/41 I think). When my great-aunt found out about it and that nothing was actively being done to save them, she wrote anyone and everyone who was high up in the Canadian government and the armed forces, she went to the newspapers, she did everything she possibly could to bring her husband home. Eventually the government, to avoid anymore bad press, launched a rescue mission. It took a few years of pestering and then waiting, but in late '43 her husband was home, as well as several others.
TL/DR: it's not always a bad thing to be a Karen.
Tenko! Some of you might remember the diaries of some of the British women interned by the Japanese were published in the late 70s and turned into a multi-series award-winning TV show in the 80s. It’s still around on DVD, and I recommend it highly. Also the fantastic BBC adaptation of A Town Like Alice from 1980, which gave America Bryan Brown.
It’s really interesting to me that the British didn’t shy away from artistic endeavors about WWII captivity (after an appropriate distance, perhaps) but Americans, in general, have.
Oh boy, you invoked the name of James I of Scotland……tennis ball sewer James…one of my very favorite Stewarts. I forgot that his story is intertwined with Henry the Fifth. I can’t seem to find enough on him, he’s always a foot note in someone else’s story and he shouldn’t be.
Very interesting, I have always been interested by WWII. As a dog lover, I was particularly interested in the Judy!!
incredible, thanks for sharing for those of us who can’t be there to see it 🖤
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Impressed with your skill of random connectivity. You never cease to pack so much more into every subject! Fascinating how you trace so far into things which most people can only grasp when a person like you bring them magically to the forefront of the brain. Thank you❣️