cover image: My dad at war - Stumbling on a long-ago photo, I saw an America that no longer exists

My dad at war - Stumbling on a long-ago photo, I saw an America that no longer exists

23 May 2024

They soon saw a great miles from the Netherlands in the north to the Swiss deal of the war in northern France and Belgium, and border on the south and consisted of more than they were in the middle of the worst of the Battle 18,000 bunkers along with concrete “teeth” that were of the Bulge. [...] What struck me was In the letters he sent Similar in purpose to the absolute ordinariness of home to my mother, he told France’s Maginot Line, it her less about the war and was supposed to protect the photo — just another more about the mundane. [...] And by And I believe that in spite of the hardship, the sacrifice the way, the war news was very sanitized. [...] There was a and the terrible loss that so many families su"ered, one conscious e"ort in Washington to keep up morale on of the reasons for the nostalgia of that period is the 6 Wisconsin Interest My dad at war unified bond that the country felt then and hasn’t felt government was a flag to be placed on his co!n. [...] They they truly believed they were alive were my scoutmaster (Marines and survived the war and Battle of — Pacific), my dad and my the Bulge because of Capt.

Authors

Matt Erdman

Pages
4
Published in
United States of America