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more about #worldwarii AuntieFreeze: Seeing the footage of the attack never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Until 9/11/01, it was the greatest loss of life due to an enemy attack on Amer... more » curiousgeorgiana: Churchill said in his memoirs that he marked that day as the beginning of victory. I think his words speak for themselves. No American will think it... more » Highsmith: Mon dieu! Here's another most amazing woman you've never heard of [www.amazon.com] more » bowleserised: My grandparents took in two teenage German-Jewish girls from Berlin, one of whom grew up to be an architect, and whose architect husband designed my g... more » CecilMcCecil: My friend works in a nursing home. One of her favorite patients is Anna, a former "Rosie the Riveter". Anna told her about the first day on the job ... more » kookla: My sister was one of the first paratroopers at Fort Bragg and had a small write up in Newsweek. She was promoted and received a commendation for sneak... more » desertbloom79: Dear Margaret Pawley, If you are in good health and can lift your legs on your own, it's not too late. Love, A proud female parachutist. more » Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): This is totally like in 3rd grade P.E. when they said we were going to do "Parachute" and I got SO excited thinking I'd get to jump off the side of th... more » meritxell: an erotic life: She's quite the looker. That tag is sooooo Paddington Bear it breaks my heart. more » Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: This article is obviously made up. Because if this were true, why on earth would people still be debating women's (in)ability to serve in the military... more » Cerridwen: Has anyone here read Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise? The first book, about the mass exodus out of Paris when the Germans invaded, was one of the ... more » Yaffle: My grandma was evacuated during the war. When I think of how long ago it was, it makes me feel so lucky to be able to talk about it with her still. B... more » badmutha: I find this story wonderful, and it kind of makes me want to cry. Talk about sacrificing for your country. more » MizJenkins: Whoa. Hello spontaneous flood of tears. more » Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): The children were moved to rural areas where they generally discovered portals to magical lands in old armoires or flew around the countryside on a la... more » sewradical: My grandparent's were pen pals during WWII. They never met but there was a "pen friend" program at my grandmother's school. He proposed before they me... more » EkaterinaBallerina: My father is one of five children (now four, my aunt died in the late 1970s). When he and his siblings went off to college and started to have lives o... more » LuvEwan: I want to receive a letter like James Joyce would send his wife. Bow chica wow wow. more » Casquivana: I love letters. Old letters. My mother and I keep all of my grandma's letters as well as the ones she kept from her own father, sisters and grandparen... more » funnyface: My grandmother keeps threatening to throw out the letters she and my Pops wrote to each other during WWII. I'm not sure HOW much I have to holler to ... more » -
#halloffame
Profile In Courage
Susan Travers may be the most amazing woman you've never heard of: an English socialite who became a Free French ambulance driver, she earned the Legion d'Honneur and become the only woman in the French Foreign Legion. [BBC] -
#noordinarytime
"Just Because I Was Female, They Wouldn't Let Me Parachute...I Still Feel Cross."
"It was the sort of interesting job men like to do and not let women in...But we were very fortunate. The war gave us an opportunity," says one of the remarkable women whose war experience is profiled in the Telegraph: More » -
#warofwords
"So It Has Come."
This series of love letters between the author's parents in the dark days of 1939 England is a fascinating peek into lives, history - and the lost art of correspondence. [TimesUK] -
#maghag
Modern Beauty Shop: Winning The War, One Curl At A Time
Recently, a reader sent us a link to this ShopBop "trend" story called Wartime. "Fashion is war," reads the copy. No. It isn't. But in the pages of 1942's Modern Beauty Shop, war was a major theme. War… and hair!
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#warstories
Enfants Terribles: French Children Of German Soldiers Seek Closure
After decades of shame and secrecy, les enfants de Boches - the products of French mothers and German soldiers - are trying to get some acknowledgment before it's too late. More » -
#goldengirls
"Comfort Women" Seek Their Own Comfort
"Part Golden Girls, part adamant activists," South Korea's former sex slaves make the House of Sharing a unique retirement community. More » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
"I Do Have To Watch Out For My Complexion, Though"
"Dick enlisted two months before Pearl Harbor - I wanted to be doing something necessary, too, so I found my job helping to build planes." [Vintage Ads] -
#sendlerslist
Set Your TiVo: Amazing Woman Gets Her Due (Or, At Least Her TV Movie)
Irena Sendler is someone whose story really should be told: the woman saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust. More » -
#dinavierny
Muse Asylum
Dina Vierny began posing for the sculptor Aristide Maillol as a teenager in order to earn pocket money.
