“Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women. This was a peoples’ war, and everyone was in it.” – Olivia Culp Hobby, engraved on WWII Memorial in DC With pride, thousands of women signed up for military service after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But, millions of women […]
Category Archives: Gallant Warriors
Inspiration for the American Dream is embodied in the lives of Walt Disney, Ben Carson, and Benny Goodman. All of these men achieved success in their lives despite difficult beginnings. They are not the exception, but the rule that America has always been the Land of Opportunity. Watching the movie, Saving Mr.Banks, with my friends, we […]
“You can be anything you set your mind to. The only true obstacle is you.” -Joseph Philip Gomer, Tuskegee Airman Quilt created by Vivian L. McCullin for National Museum of African American History and Culture Memorial Quilt for Tuskegee Airman 2d Lt. James McCullin The story of the Tuskegee Airman delves into the very fabric […]
CHILDREN OF SILENCE By Cleo Lampos Thomas struggled to take a breath in the spring air. As the other children ran around him, playing, pushing, screaming, he tried to inhale enough oxygen to walk to the stoop of his home. The oldest of twelve children, Thomas did more sitting and daydreaming than he did […]
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“Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.” –Chae Richardson The bombardier died at his post. Two other crewmen sustained injuries. The pilot knew that things might not end well. But he forged ahead. On December 30, 1942, Captain Clyde Walker flew his Flying Fortress […]
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“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to man.” – David Kahn, The Codebreakers. A female code breaker and member of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) program operated a Naval Security Station cryptanalytic machine to help decode […]
Teaching in Malawi- Mawingamara Start where you are. Use what you have, Do what you can. – Arthur Ash My brother has lived in Malawi, Africa since about 1985. He used to be named Byron, but these days he is known as Mawingamara and he is the tribal headman of the tiny village which he […]
How many of us knew that April 12 was designated as Street Children Day? I didn’t, so on that day the plight of 100 million children in the world went unnoticed by me. The daily rising toll of orphans in Syria usually captures my attention, and I mourn for these little ones who have lost […]
“Women are like tea bags: You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot waters.” Eleanor Roosevelt The news that a senior citizen like myself needed to stay inside for protection from a virus left an unsettling feeling. What could I do with all the time? Day after day of isolation from meetings, […]
The latest movie, Monuments Men, will be released on February 7 and I hope to be one of the first to see it. The Monuments Men were 345 men and women from thirteen nations who banded together to preserve the world’s cultural treasures from the hands of the Nazis during WWII. As an unsuspecting group of museum […]