The deadline is approaching to submit your thoughts on the topic of home. The museum’s latest book (to be published in April 2024) will cover themes like “far from home,” “coming home,” “going home,” “homesick,” “home fires” and more. We’d love to hear your stories about home. Authors will receive a free book in lieu […]

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
James MacMannis and his wife listen to their ham radio James ‘Dad Mac’ MacMannis is believed to have sent as many as 33,000 postcards during World War II. WEST PALM BEACH — Dad Mac sat in his living room and furiously scribbled the names the German propaganda machine rattled off.…

by Allen Dale Olson It was Thanksgiving, November 28, 1946. I was sixteen years old, living with my parents in a rural Indiana township along the southern tip of Lake Michigan.  1946, of course, was the first full year of normalcy after World War II ended in the preceding summer. It was the first year […]