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Category: World War II

Postage Stamps: World’s Smallest Contract

“The US military knew that letters from home were the single biggest morale booster, and a force with high morale fights better.”  Sarah Sundin A postage stamp is the world’s smallest contract. When it is licked and affixed onto an envelope, there is an implied promise that nothing will deter…

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CleoLampos February 11, 2021 March 11, 2021Cleo Thoughts, Quilts, World War II 1

The Code Breakers of WWII

“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…

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CleoLampos September 11, 2020 September 10, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, World War II 1

A Woman’s Potential

thewordfortheday.tumblr.com   “You can go to college. You can have a career. Study hard.” Those words from my mother still echo in my head. Good advice. But from a woman married to an alcoholic and poorer than a church mouse, the statistical possibility of her daughters graduating from college would…

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CleoLampos May 22, 2020 May 21, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, World War II 0

Stay At Home Opportunity

“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…

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CleoLampos April 9, 2020 April 7, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, The Great Depression, World War II 0

Meet the Quilters of WW2

“Without the aid of home front women warriors, maintaining the needs of the country and the military during the war would have been impossible.”   – Sue Reich The Grannies Quilt The call for quilts to help in the war effort fell onto the ears of many on the home front…

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CleoLampos March 19, 2020 March 18, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Memories, Quilts, The Great Depression, World War II 1

WW2 Quilters: Fighting with Needles and Thread

“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…

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CleoLampos March 16, 2020 March 16, 2020Celebration, Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, Quilts, World War II 0
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