The Veteran Next Door: Stories from World War II Vol. 1

From the words of individual WASP. Willow Bend Books, Reference book on the WASP--including names of all the graduates. A really nice overall history of women in aviation That said, this is a nice blend of all the women who made a difference in aviation and the history they made. American Women in the Military foreword by Walter Cronkite. Global Mission by Henry Harley Arnold.

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But there are also a lot of could be compensated by close relationships with good things, my grandchildren for example. Grandchildren especially provided a sense want to make comparisons. This was true across the sample of participants, and it is well expressed in the A few persons were able to draw lessons from the following quotations from veterans in the Ukraine collapse of the Soviet Union, as illustrated by this and the Urals.

One male veteran from Cherkassy male Ukrainian veteran from Cherkassy: What is happening to our society is the result of our I do worry about our children and grandchildren, political passivity and indifference of each man to about their life. The state thought instead of us earlier and for the best. We are experienced in this. My spirit is they do so now. They behaved disgracefully before still strong and ready to struggle, nothing can break and they so the same nowadays.

We followed the me morally. We just celebrated the birth of a great- way of the Party and those in power. I took part in the march of peace.

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My consulted with us, our task was to vote unanimously aim is to live for my family. I love them as before and take care of them. The situation ically survive such massive societal change should of those who lived unhappily alone was painfully not be downplayed. Many participants continued to expressed by another male veteran from Cheliabinsk draw on the language of struggle and recovery that in the Urals: One of our male Karelian participants The basic condition of my life is loneliness. My from Petrozavodsk even converted his feelings into children call on me often, but they have their life.

A female Ukrainian veteran from The future hope of these veterans was focused less Cherkassy had worked as a school teacher after the on their own lives and more on that of their children war, but she now lacked family support and had to and grandchildren. Expressions of despair pre- resort to selling on the streets: Now I visit family relationships were a disappointment.

My son has died.

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I have little hope. Capitalism is not the in this regard. Women veterans expressed family future for me. However, the continuing importance of reinforced by decades of commemorative events. The latter, to family, especially through an exchange of services which most of the participants belonged, had played and money.

This makes it important for older adults a particularly important role in maintaining morale to live near their families. Our data also indicated during the transitions that occurred with the that the family provided the main bulwark for dissolution of the Soviet Union. British older people studied by means of a similar The vast majority of the participants had in- interview schedule Coleman et al. The health tegrated their war experiences into their life stories. However, the importance to them and it compensated to a large Russian and Ukrainian war veterans placed consid- degree for the continuing distress of mind, inter- erably more stress on civic values.

In doing so, they ruptions to normal life, and lost opportunities e. The restoration of the sition from communism to capitalism. As our played in the face of massive social change. For some research with Finnish war veterans also suggests participants, this meant adopting a stance of moral 58 The Gerontologist Downloaded from https: The interpretation of these data supports the Many ideas have been put forward. In our Russian idea, a vision of the future of people that sample of participants, concern for future generations, is rooted more generally in Eastern Orthodox and especially their grandchildren, predominated.

Some ideas have also included involved in community educational activities. Some a more radical turning away from Eurocentric and tried hard to include the youngest generation in their even Christian perspectives to an emphasis on the generative activities.

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Parallel debates about postcommun- work. These activities were often recounted in ist identity have also occurred in the Ukraine, albeit narrative form and sometimes also found expression with a stronger westernizing component. However, in poetry and music. Under President Putin, Russia has become examples of war veterans who combined the ability more governed, self-interested, and independent in to survive great trauma, pride in achievements, its political dealings, especially with the United a strong commitment to their families, and an States.

The poor socioeco- enced the entire war from the initial retreat through nomic conditions under which the majority of relinquished Soviet territory to the triumphant citizens and especially older citizens live have begun advance to Berlin followed by a long journey to to get more attention.

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Although he could not accept the recent societal Particularly striking is how this debate draws in changes, and was for the return of Soviet power, his people from so many varied backgrounds. His hope near-universal basic education to a notably high remained undiminished by the current social up- level. The fall of the uncharted way in a new form of society, but Soviet Union has not resolved issues about the continuing close family ties mean that they listen sociopolitical future of Russia and its neighbors.

Russia in search of itself. The Johns Hopkins University Press. In the past 15 years, Russians Coleman, P. Self-esteem and have produced what Billington , an American its sources: Stability and change in later life. Ageing and Society, 13, expert on Russian history and culture, has described — Persistence of life themes in old age. Societal change, values, and McAdams, D.

A theory of generativity and its social support: Exploratory studies into adjustment in late life. The rest had been wounded or killed. I got word just recently from headquarters, I am the only known living survivor of a hundred fifty-five man originally. Is that what I hear? That you got a book going? What caused you to write the book? Why did you want to do that?

I latch onto everything I get a hold of. I received so many calls from relatives of the boys that was in my company, wanting to know about them. And on the trip from Italy to Ireland, I made around to all the boys in my company and got their home address, their name and their home address in a composition book I found in a school building in Naples, Italy.

And I get so many requests from different families asking about their relatives. She got my name somewhere and wanted to know if I knew him. And it so happened I had his name and address. I made a copy of it and sent it to her.

And says she broke down and began to cry when she saw his hand write. They were afraid of it getting in enemy hands and having information that would hurt. Now I say that you went back on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. And you went back on the 70th anniversary. We were jumping around different places. But on the Plains of Mook in Holland, we started out attack one morning real early, across a meadow like land.

And there was a fog over us. About halfway across the meadow, the fog lifted. And the German army was in the woods made up of old men and young boys- 10 and 12 years old. And they just mowed us down. Killed every officer in our company, except one. And he was buried in a trench row in He was not found until And he notified the officials. They came out and searched and found his dog tags. And sent them to high volume for positive identification.

They opened the cemetery up. They closed it, but they opened it to allow him to be buried with his buddies. Met the family, made them a bunch of pictures. I carried a camera with me over there in combat. I have a number of pictures. I have- my foxhole here in the Battle of the Bulge. Well, did I see that you went back to that foxhole on the 70th anniversary when you went back?

Did you find that foxhole? The one that I have here in the Battle of the Bulge with snow on the ground and everything. And on the Pacific side is probably Iwo Jima. But Battle of the Bulge-. And when we arrived to Bastogne, they sent us on a little further north to set up a defense line. Well, for over a month, st Airborne was following after us. Colonel McAuliffe I think is the one who did that, as I recall. So you went through D-Day. You went through the Battle the Bulge.

Well, I was- nearly died when I was 10 years old. I was fresh on a farm. Dad never took me out on the farm to work. He left me at the house with mother. I was her little girl growing up. And she taught me how to cook, and sew, and embroider, crochet, and knit, and all that good stuff. I was saved when I was 14, and I felt a call to the ministry at But being little, I had to prove I was big as anybody.

And lo and behold I ended up in the roughest, toughest outfit Uncle Sam had. They threw me in with a bunch of Yankees. They gave me a hard time. Does those shoes hurt your feet? But most of them turned out to be a pretty good buddy after a while. I felt the call, but I resisted the call.

It was in Holland after the battle was over. I carried a Testament in my pocket all during the battle. I read it through, going over and to Casablanca, and I read it from time to time as I had time. And I was sitting in the foxhole, reading my Testament and praying. And in the meantime, I met my future wife. We started going to church occasionally. And this one particular Sunday night, as we sat waiting for the pastor to come, the Lord was speaking to me in his way. Lo and behold, the pastor had a flat tire, and he had to walk so far to get it fixed. Well, the chairman of our Deacon, a big tall man.

Looks like our pastor is not going to make it. Well, that was my cue. I answered my calling to preach. It was in January. And I preached the next Sunday night, my first sermon, 12th of January, Lo, what a crowd was there. Every pew was taken. But three was saved that night. Shortly after I was called in my first church to pastor.

I pastored four churches, continuous, going from one to the other for 30 years. And the Lord really blessed. I give the Lord all the glory. And I was working on the job, working a full-time church, and I finally put me up a shop of my own. I was working about hours a day, and it was just too much for me. I had a heart attack. Had a blockage, had a heart attack. And I resigned in , my last church. One of them was 26 months, and one was about as long as a lot of pastors stay. He used you in World War II as a soldier.

But I read that you got a decoration for fifty-five consecutive years of Sunday school attendance. That is terrific, Pastor, we so appreciate you sharing your story with us today, brother. If you have been listening to WallBuilders Live for very long at all, you know how much we respect our veterans and how appreciative we are of the sacrifice they make to make our freedoms possible. One of the ways that we love to honor those veterans is to tell their stories here on WallBuilders Live.