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The Death Railway

Connie wrote 3 days ago: The bridge on a cloudy day Today was all about visiting the bridge on the river Kwai and learning ab … more →

Tags: witterings, Life of Me, Non-Fiction, Holiday, Travel, film, Bangkok, river, Thailand

Able to Spot Their Priests

ddkaarre wrote 6 days ago: Story of the Day for Wednesday May 15, 2013    Able to Spot Their Priests                       Remi … more →

Tags: Bible Teaching, Devotional, Faith Journey, Motivation, 250 clerical collars, demoralize prisoners, Korean War, leadership, loss of leasership devastates a group

The evil that men do.

furiousgeorge27 wrote 1 week ago: Day 31 – 33. A lasting impression. Most people have an inkling that the Japanese acted like ab … more →

Tags: kanchanaburi, Death Railway, River Kwai, wwii

Hanoi Jane as Nancy Reagan?!

PARTNERING WITH EAGLES wrote 1 week ago: NOTE: Snopes calls the reports of Hanoi Jane’s actions false.  http://www.snopes.com/military/ … more →

Tags: Flatheads, Veterans, military, snopes, Hanoi Jane, Jane Fonda, Hanoi Hilton

Secure their Release until not a Single Eye Among us Blinks1 comment

aseerun wrote 1 week ago: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم {وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ … more →

Tags: maktabah, prisoner, prisoners, Muslim Prisoners, Muslim prisoner, Prisoner of War, Prisoners of War, Muslim Prisoners of War, POW

Week 15 - Kanchanaburi, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai & Pai

Sly-Zo wrote 1 week ago: Moving north of Bangkok Most package tourists will go straight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, generally … more →

Tags: Thailand, waterfalls, scooter, WW2, History, Temples

Korean War Hero's Medal of Honor Ceremony at the White House

johnib wrote 1 month ago: An Army chaplain who the White House says braved “withering enemy fire” to  provide medi … more →

Tags: Catholic, News, Chinese, U S Army, medal of honor, Politics 2, Kansas, Korean War, Hero 2

Quran on Prisoners of War (POWs) - Sensing the tone!

Bold and Bearded wrote 1 month ago: فَإِذا لَقِيتُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَثْخَنْتُمُوهُمْ فَشُدُّوا الْ … more →

Tags: Ghamidi, ~ Quran & Sunnah ~, Prisoners of War, POW, captive, Muhammad, Sura 47, Sura Muhammad, Sura Qital

age and procrastination

hilarycustancegreen wrote 1 month ago: I have noticed an interesting effect of age. I no longer put off doing a major job properly. So in t … more →

Tags: Reading, writing notes, Gardens, CHANGI, Publishing, writing, brick paths, wwii, rejection

Spearhead II17 comments

gpcox wrote 1 month ago: Bill Mauldin must have seen the same newspaper photo I put into the last post. His cartoons helped t … more →

Tags: Pacific War, wwii, 11th Airborne Division, History, Army, military, Military History, Family History, Navy

Luzon Raid - correction2 comments

hilarycustancegreen wrote 1 month ago: In the COFEPOW quarterly newsletter, there is a short piece about the memoirs of Signalman W G Riley … more →

Tags: Luzon, COFEPOW, Imperial War Museum, Cabanatuan

Luzon Raid1 comment

hilarycustancegreen wrote 1 month ago: I see on the WordPress site http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com several mentions of Luzon and a … more →

Tags: Pacific War, Luzon

"I showed my daughter places I knew"

Big Lottery Fund wrote 1 month ago: A Royal Airforce (RAF) veteran from Wythenshaw, Manchester, recently embarked upon a Lottery-funded … more →

Tags: raf, 62 Squadron, Akyab Island, Bombay, Burma, CHANGI, hiroshima, HMS Ranchi, Indonesia

Dealing with writing criticism

hilarycustancegreen wrote 1 month ago: I love the randomness of existence; so Monday morning there was a knock on the door and a great lorr … more →

Tags: writing notes, Gardens, literary agents, brick paths, Border Line, Fiction book

English 9 Regents: Persuasive Writing Related to The Odyssey

Susan Woodward wrote 2 months ago: This is the research unit that I did with my Regents students.  We took ten class days to prepare fo … more →

Tags: English 9 Regents, Domain 1: Planning and Preparation, Domain 3: Instruction, appr, The-Odyssey, soldiers returning from war, mias, common core standards, persuasive writing

JANE FONDA THE CELEBRITY TRAITOR

mesmask wrote 2 months ago: Fonda got her politics and patriotism confused. Apparently her father also was confused: I’d just as … more →

Tags: Political, Politics, politicians, Hanoi Jane, Vietnam, Nixon, traitor, North Vietnam, Jane Fonda

miscellaneous day

hilarycustancegreen wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday was a weird day. We were expecting bad weather yet the sun was shining bright, so I scramb … more →

Tags: writing notes, Gardens, Researching FEPOW History, Lindy Hop

On The Road

Fairy wrote 2 months ago: I guess you are probably wondering whether I have disappeared completely.  No, we have just been hav … more →

Tags: Holidays, Cowra, Japanese Gardens, Cowra Breakout

coincidence2 comments

hilarycustancegreen wrote 2 months ago: On the TV last evening a program about a right-wing group at the beginning of the WWII. The conseque … more →

Tags: Reading, Arandora Star


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