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    • 34 Ratings
    • 520 Views
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    Fighter Planes, Video Games, and my Brother's Father

    MAY 28, 2012 5:04PM

    By Just Thinking...


    Topics: loss, war babies, war brides, wwii, memorial day, fighter plane video games, soldiers

    • 6 Ratings
    • 122 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Memorial Day- Shell Shock

    MAY 24, 2012 9:26PM

    By kenneth houck


    Topics: ptsd, navy, convoy, wwii

    • 26 Ratings
    • 325 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    War Stories: a Convoluted Salute to Memorial Day

    MAY 24, 2012 5:15PM

    By jmac1949


    Topics: belief/religion, family, politics, vietnam+veterans+memorial, history, wwii, b-17, 8th air force, architecture

    • 3 Ratings
    • 192 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Why Christians Should Not Have a Problem With Hitler

    MAY 7, 2012 9:49AM

    By rwnutjob


    Topics: synagogue of satan, jews, wwii, religion, christian, hitler, nazis, open call

    • 8 Ratings
    • 181 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Assassin, Wife, Cuckolder, Spy — OS Weekend Fiction

    APRIL 27, 2012 8:26AM

    By Seth James


    Topics: the french resistance, wwii, france, books, fiction

    • 10 Ratings
    • 475 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson - A Review

    APRIL 2, 2012 8:53PM

    By SheilaTGTG55


    Topics: politics, ambassador to berlin four years under roosevelt., william dodd, wwii

    • 11 Ratings
    • 322 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Grandma's Funeral and War Stories on a Summer's Night

    FEBRUARY 25, 2012 5:38PM

    By jmac1949


    Topics: belief/religion, family, movies, wwii, america

    • 3 Ratings
    • 401 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Lest We Forget...Boy, Another Hero

    FEBRUARY 8, 2012 3:40PM

    By V.Corso


    Topics: dutch resistance, aruba, wwii, boy ecury

    • 0 Ratings
    • 126 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Remembering Jerry Takashima

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 4:37PM

    By rs3


    Topics: fiction, japanese-american, burbank ca, wwii, friendship, true story

    • 1 Ratings
    • 224 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    A few brief (but powerful) reminiscences about World War II

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 11:26PM

    By thefuddler


    Topics: wwii, world war ii, world war 2, pearl harbor, nazi, nazi germany, night and fog, war, 70th anniversary of pearl harbor, pearl harbor

    • 17 Ratings
    • 2522 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    WWII Great Escape fourth tunnel discovered

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 10:42AM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: great escape, wwii, poland, steve mcqueen, richard attenborough, open call

    • 2 Ratings
    • 261 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    REPOST: Veterans Day 2010

    NOVEMBER 11, 2011 5:56PM

    By pastvoices


    Topics: mustard gas in aragon forest, afghanistan/iraq, vietnam, korea, wwii, wwi, all veterans, family, veterans

    • 0 Ratings
    • 390 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Louie Zamperini - A True American Hero

    NOVEMBER 11, 2011 11:52AM

    By TheSucculentWife


    Topics: unbroken, laura hillanbrand, soldiers, wwii, hero, remembrance day, veteran's day

    • 7 Ratings
    • 504 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    The OS Fiction Club for 11/11-13/11-Executing the Enemy

    NOVEMBER 9, 2011 3:13PM

    By Katmancross


    Topics: execution, stan, wwii, friday fiction, open call, fiction, fiction weekend, short stories, war, war stories, armistice day, veterans day, remembrance day, everyone's welcome to join in!

    • 2 Ratings
    • 392 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Memory Lane

    SEPTEMBER 17, 2011 8:56PM

    By rwnutjob


    Topics: america, hitler, wwii, warner brothers, old cartoons, open call

    • 3 Ratings
    • 492 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Whoa, lookit her!

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 5:26PM

    By gail williams


    Topics: rosie the riveter, wwii, women, girls, work, feminism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 83 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Are There Any Arguments for Nuking Hiroshima?

    AUGUST 22, 2011 12:34PM

    By Bretigne


    Topics: wwii, japan, nagasaki, hiroshima, war crimes, nuclear, peace, war, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 74 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Come with Me and Visit Hell

    AUGUST 22, 2011 9:39AM

    By Kuba Przedzienkowski


    Topics: nazis., germans, stutthof, wwii, holocaust

    • 0 Ratings
    • 111 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Massara at the Docks

    AUGUST 16, 2011 1:47PM

    By Jewellya


    Topics: immigration, italy, mussolini, dock, ship, argentina, mexico, open call, ancestry.com, wwii

    • 0 Ratings
    • 98 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Remembering Mr. Miyamoto

    AUGUST 15, 2011 8:06PM

    By Bretigne


    Topics: wwii, japan, nagasaki, hiroshima, war crimes, nuclear, peace, war, politics

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