Aw, don't let the name fool you ..... this isn't a test!
As ever, thanks to Joyce for hosting this coffee klatch / tea party / cocktail hour. (Pick one!)
The Hodgepodge lands on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Have you visited the memorial? Yes, back in the early 70's. I'm afraid it didn't mean so much to me then as it would now.
Have you visited other WW2 sites and memorials? No, not that I recall.
Do you think we do a good job of teaching current and younger generations about the events of WW2? Do you think it matters? Of course, it matters! That said, I'm not knowledgeable enough re. what's being taught in schools to form an opinion.
Many books, both fiction and non-fiction have been written with WW2 as the setting. Is this a 'genre' you gravitate towards? Share with us a book (or two) you've enjoyed that is set in some way around WW2. If you're not a reader, how about a movie?
Considering where I grew up, this immediately came to mind:
Inside Box 1663
(excerpt: "In 1943 I lived in Croton-on-Hudson, New York with my husband and my son who was almost 10 years old. At that time, I had no idea there was a Box 1663 in the Santa Fe post office, nor that I would disappear into it, lose my identity and emerge from it at the end of 1945 an entirely different person."
One observer writes, "Los Alamos was a bustling city that officially didn't exist."
Her first-person account wasn't without humor:
"..... remembers a quiet afternoon in early August 1945 when her husband witnessed an accident at the Lab and was thought to have been exposed to radiation: 'Harriet Hollaway was at the foot of the stairs and after I told her we just looked at each other. In times of crisis, we would take out the whiskey bottle; Harriet went and got her bottle. Every time I looked like I was going to faint, Harriet would give me another shot of whiskey. Consequently, I have no real memory of that night, and that's how I got through it.'"
According to Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, there are seven popular color trends for the holidays this year. They are: red and white, Victorian blue, pops of pink, rich shades of green, rainbow hues, black and white and nostalgic retro colors. Are you 'trendy' when it comes to holiday decorating in 2022? How so? Does your tree have a theme?
Trendy? Absolutely not!
Tom hasn't volunteered an opinion, but I like to surround myself with olden, mis-matched articles that stroke the sentimentalist in me.
What is a current trend you buck?
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Tik-Tok .... Woke-ism
What's your favorite chocolate something?
White chocolate peppermint bark.
Insert your own random thought here.
