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A Christmas baby, born in Long Island, Kansas in 1929, my maternal grandmother, Joanna Kats, came into this world in the wake of Black Thursday, the worst…
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Our Tia-Mama said she was way too young to be a grandmother when her first grandchild was born, so she became Tia-Mama. In Spanish “tia” actually means…
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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri March 22, 1943. An interesting story from my childhood was that I was born in the midst of WWII, and my mother was the…
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My Grandpa Albert lives in San Antonio, Texas. I interviewed him over Facetime on my Ipad as there was no time to meet with him face to face. His life is…
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My grandfather was named Farid Jabre. He was born in Beit Chebab, Lebanon. He changed his birth date to March 19 to show his devotion to Saint Joseph. My…
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At age 92, our great uncle Howard Horii has many stories to tell, but one of the most compelling is his story of the Japanese- American internment camps…
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The Vietnam War began on November 1st, 1955 and lasted for twenty years. November 1, 1955 was the official date determined by Congress to honor the deaths…
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My great-grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth O’Connor was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland along with four other siblings. When she was only fourteen, she…
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