The Crew of the Lady Patricia

This is a tribute to the crew of the Lady Patricia. Most of them are gone. A few are still around. One of them is my dad. They represent a great generation of men and women who did their duty under difficult circumstances. Many paid the ultimate price and never returned. Many more brought home memories that haunt them still, especially in their dreams when the years melt away. This is their story, my dad's, that of the crew of the Lady Patricia, and the story of perhaps thousands like them.

By |2021-07-09T11:27:35-05:00September 9th, 1999|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on The Crew of the Lady Patricia
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A Random Act of Kindness c. 1945

The soldier can't remember what he had to eat that night, and he remembers little about the others who joined him. But he will never forget the stranger's act of kindness, which gave some World War II servicemen a warm welcome home and endured to help a veteran stand tall in his daughter's eyes.

By |2016-11-23T10:25:25-06:00April 14th, 1998|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on A Random Act of Kindness c. 1945
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Catch-22, Dad

Published in 1961, the book details the insanities surrounding an Army Air Corps bombardier stationed off the coast of Italy in World War II. The novel by Joseph Heller is fictitious but speaks volumes about contradictions in our society then and now. But you probably already knew that, having not had trendy '70s mini courses in your school curriculum. That my father also flew on bombing missions in Italy for two years during World War II makes the book to me altogether more personally vital because my father rarely speaks of those days.

By |2016-11-23T10:25:53-06:00September 15th, 1997|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on Catch-22, Dad
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Girl Math

Before the ENIAC computer was programmed by these women during World War II, the task of calculating ballistics trajectories was accomplished by hand by a group of 80 female mathematicians.

By |2016-11-23T10:26:05-06:00May 31st, 1997|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on Girl Math
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