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frazzled

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3. What a wonderful portrait of a time and place, beautifully told

Sat Apr 4, 2015, 06:21 PM

Apr 2015

and illustrated. (And BTW, you were an adorable little kid!). Thank you so much for sharing your memories.

P.S. My dad also was shipped off to New Guinea during the war (and stayed in the South Pacific as a tail gunner for four years). I wonder if he shipped back with your dad. And I wonder if they could ever have met, or if segregation kept them apart. My dad had his own issues in the military, being a Jewish midwesterner. Childhood Easters for you in West Virginia, childhood memories of Passovers for me in Indiana: and yet I feel we are richer for sharing each others' experiences.

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Remembering Charleston at Easter (Again) [View all] bigtree Apr 2015 OP

What a wonderful story. annabanana Apr 2015 #1

thanks for reading, annabanana bigtree Apr 2015 #4

Thank you Bigtree. This is what it used to be like. I hope that some of the children of today are jwirr Apr 2015 #2

you're welcome, jwirr bigtree Apr 2015 #6

What a wonderful portrait of a time and place, beautifully told frazzled Apr 2015 #3

thanks, frazzled bigtree Apr 2015 #10

Your father was quite the writer frazzled Apr 2015 #12

99 bigtree Apr 2015 #14

Thank you for sharing your memories bigtree. I hope you are writing a book. livetohike Apr 2015 #5

ha! Lol, what happened to that 'cutie?!" bigtree Apr 2015 #11

Memories so well told, bigtree. Lars39 Apr 2015 #7

yep, Lars bigtree Apr 2015 #15

Only thing closer for my experience would be that lunch would be "Dinner on the ground" Lars39 Apr 2015 #24

Beautiful post! Thank you as always for sharing some of your life with us. scarletwoman Apr 2015 #8

thanks, scarletwoman bigtree Apr 2015 #16

What a great posting. Thank you, bigtree, for sharing your memories japple Apr 2015 #9

thanks, Japple bigtree Apr 2015 #17

Wow! Happy to see you have more family stories. I have bookmarked these to read. japple Apr 2015 #23

Thank you so much for this! I grew up in Huntington, and the houses in your pictures Tanuki Apr 2015 #13

how absolutely wonderful that we had such similar Easters in the same neck of the woods bigtree Apr 2015 #18

Magnificent post! Thank you PCIntern Apr 2015 #19

thanks, PCIntern! bigtree Apr 2015 #20

Fabulous! Great post. panader0 Apr 2015 #21

thank you, panader0 bigtree Apr 2015 #22

hope everyone had a fulfilling Easter bigtree Apr 2015 #25

Now thta 2naSalit Apr 2015 #26