[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's told very special. Thanks, is a great story. I showed it around my household and everyone was blown away in turn. What life does bring. What a great story of courage. That was only 60 years ago

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-31 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Doug Hamilton writes snipped: Good stories often turn on a presence of mind that has someone stand resolved. Well told stories do tell what someone was thinking or doing `walking in those shoes' and sometimes a good story just helps you stand where someone stood for a moment. TomT: Susan

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-31 Thread Duveyoung
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Hamilton writes snipped: Good stories often turn on a presence of mind that has someone stand resolved. Well told stories do tell what someone was thinking or doing `walking in those shoes'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-30 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister that our folks have shared their memories as thoroughly as they have, and that they're still available to resource despite their age. It's impossible to imagine the hardships and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Sal, I never even made it to the cutting room floor. Don't know who those kids were. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister that our folks have shared their memories as thoroughly as they have, and that they're still available to resource despite their age. Have you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Judy, my brother has hours of interviews with them and a book in progress for many years now. Whether it ever comes together or not as a published piece, it's chocked full of amazing stories and unlikely coincidences. One memory I have was the visit of an old guy by the name of John de Rosen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-29 Thread feste37
The Goethe poem is a favorite of mine; Schubert set it to music and made it even more moving. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a Buchenwald story for you. When the Allies liberated Buchenwald, it became part of the Russian gulag, and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life

2008-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister that our folks have shared their memories as thoroughly as they have, and that they're still available to resource despite their age. It's impossible to imagine the hardships and violence that so many people in the 20th C.