Tag: World War II

How Baseball Leads to Profound Moments

This past summer, my son was offered an opportunity to represent the United States and play baseball in Belgium and Holland. Naturally, I took one for the team…

Turning Historical Events into Modern Reflective Inquiries

For years, every time we covered World War II and the Holocaust in school it was just a fact memorization activity. “Hitler was bad and did bad things.”…

Contested Perspective

Human connection is the most important part of life to me. I really value great relationships and look forward to connecting with new people every chance I get….

Don’t Understand Me Too Quickly

Fresh out of graduate school, Jon Parrish Peede embraced the chance to travel, arriving in Eastern Europe during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. A last-minute decision to see the…

Letter from My Grandfather

Ina Dixon explains how a letter from her grandfather to her grandmother, written just before the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, reconnects her to her grandfather and…

A Timeless Description

I feel robbed that I did not get the opportunity to ask my Great Uncle Burl what it was like to train in North Africa or share stories…