VETERANS: WWII veteran’s bracelet comes home … … 

Friday, November 21, 2025

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/wwii-veterans-bracelet-1946-found-france-returned-daughter-127423766?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

WWII veteran’s bracelet from 1946 found in France and returned to his daughter
It was an incredible research mystery. Now, Joan Sheehan will receive her dad’s WWII bracelet 80 years later.
November 11, 2025

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Better than never.

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HISTORICAL: Narvik: Hitler’s First Defeat

Friday, May 30, 2025

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9737876/

Narvik: Hitler’s First Defeat

2022 1h 48m Drama / History

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April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler’s war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.

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From a civilian Mom’s pov.

Essentially, she is faced with a Sophie’s choice decision.

Not to spoil it, you learn that you have to decide for yourself what is your best course of action for you and yours.

Hard to criticize anyone who is not living through the decision.

Politics aside, it also teaches that you can’t trust politicians and bureaucrats!

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VETERANS: Gene F. Walker finally returned home; sadly

Friday, December 1, 2023

https://people.com/remains-wwii-soldier-identified-nearly-79-years-after-death-8406492?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Human Interest
Remains of WWII Soldier from Indiana Identified Nearly 79 Years After His Death

  • Gene F. Walker will be buried in San Diego in early 2024, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

By Brenton Blanchet
Published on November 24, 2023 12:57PM EST

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The remains of a soldier killed during World War II at age 27 were identified by military scientists after nearly 79 years.

On Wednesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Richmond, Indiana, and that he “was accounted for” in July of this year. 

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A 1944 obituary, cited by WTHR, noted at the time that Walker was survived by his wife and a daughter whom he never met. 

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So sad and a reminder of the cost of war in the lives of men, widows, and children.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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HEROIC: No one knew what a hero this man was and how he helped to change the world

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/arno-penzias-nobel-prize-winning-physicists-family-escaped-the-nazis-with-strangers-help/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=16-06-2022

A Stranger’s Kindness Helped Boy Escape the Nazis Who Would Go On to Win Nobel Prize–And He Never Knew it
By Andy Corbley – Jun 15, 2022

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What would you do if in the middle of the night, a stranger asked you to legally declare your financial support for an immigrant family that you would never meet—and hadn’t even arrived in your country yet?

That was essentially the proposition that Barnet Yudin, a Russian-American Jew, faced one night in 1938 when a stranger, who was going door-to-door, appealed to the man asking if he could help a Jewish family from Germany flee to North America.

While Yudin hadn’t gone on to be the doctor he dreamed of being, he and his family lived comfortably in Belleville, New Jersey—and his job as a paint salesmen brought in a healthy $120 a month.

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“None of these people would exist today without Barnet Yudin,” David said, emphasizing the difference that Yudin’s choice made.

Joe Yudin, a great-grandson, told Nat Geo that his grandfather didn’t say, “Is this kid going to win the Nobel someday, or play shortstop for the Yankees? He did what he did because it was right and didn’t mention it to anybody. He definitely had this big picture of what humanity should be like.”

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I heard stories about the “affidavit of support” and how difficult it was to get through the bureaucrats in the USA.

What a difference from today when criminals work across the southern border with impunity.

Here a fellow that did the right thing.  Even though no one knew about it for generations later.

(Ever heard that old Irish adage about “good works only count if done in secret”. Funny, I learned that from my maternal English Protestant grandmother who wanted to teach me about my maternal grandfather’s “heathen Irish culture that has a few good points”. ROFL!)

Here’s an example!

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