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100th Birthday
From Christine Szewczyk
Hi!, My grandmother will be turning 100. Our family would like to do something special, a letter from President Bush or a letter from Pope Benedict. Can anyone kindly help me obtain this? It would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! Email: christine@*****.net
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Stories From The Past.
From Alice Connor
Battered Fried Zuccinni
Name unknown
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
salt and pepper
chopped garlic or garlic salt
parsley
chopped onion
¼ cup grated cheese
Beat eggs, add flour, milk, & Baking Powder, salt, pepper etc
Add 1 (med) grated zucchini
Fry in oil until brown
drop by large spoonfuls
drain on paper towels
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By Bill Hawksford
Following is an excerpt from the book titled,
The Silly Buggers by Bill Hawksford.
Things are a lot different now than they were 60 years ago. But, if I recall correctly, if there was even one shot fired at our troops from any location, the artillery and Air Force was called in, and the area was almost devastated, but it saved a lot of American lives. Case in point, at Salerno, Sept. 1943, the Nazi's holed up in a village (Battapaglia) just about two miles in from the beach head. We suffered a lot of casualties until the Navy was called in with 16" and 12" shells. I believe Bob (Ex Pow) was also in this area.
Yours in peace,
Bernie
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Landmark Supreme Court Cases and Chief Justices of the time
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in two cases—regarding Harvard and the University of North Carolina's admissions practices—that using race as a factor for college admission violates the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. With the ruling falling along ideological lines, this major decision ends race-based affirmative action in higher education.
1. How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns and why?
21 steps. It alludes to the twenty-one gun salute, which is the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary.
2. How long does he hesitate after his about face to begin his return walk and why?
21 seconds for the same reason as answer number 1
3. Why are his gloves wet?
His gloves are moistened to prevent his losing his grip on the rifle.
Preserving Old Photographs
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
As I watch the current Presidential race I am struck by the obvious similarities to another such race over 140 years ago. As the presidential race of 1864 drew near President Abraham Lincoln, stuck in a bloody civil war, had serious doubts about his reelection chances. On a daily basis the war casualties came in and the newspapers attacked his administration and his thoughtless war. After three years of bloody war in which over 300,000 soldiers had been killed the general feeling was Lincoln would not be reelected, yet he stayed the course.
Glenn Rojohn and his crew. Glenn Rojohn and his crew.
by Ralph Kenney Bennett
Tomorrow they will lay the remains of Glenn Rojohn to rest in the Peace Lutheran Cemetery in the little town of Greenock, Pa., just southeast of Pittsburgh. He was 81, and had been in the air conditioning and plumbing business in nearby McKeesport. If you had seen him on the street he would probably have looked to you like so many other graying, bespectacled old World War II veterans whose names appear so often now on obituary pages.
The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. The following is a sampling of these interviews. (From the Library of Congress.)
Anna Novak, Packing House Worker