Part III – Going to War
https://vidacolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Part-III-Going-to-War.mp4 As we stood over Granny’s bed in the hospice room we knew she didn’t have much time. Her body was frail, she had not been eating or drinking for days. The Lord was calling her home. Next to her bed, a shoebox and a second small rectangular brown box. In the shoebox: love letters. […]
Part II – The CCCs
https://vidacolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/StanleyCCCFInal.mp4The morning fog hung on the fields and the frost still remained on the stalks of corn from last fall. Stan’s boots crunched over them in the Indiana morning. There was a road that led from Stoops farm where the boys were on their way out to do their days work past Grandpa Charlie’s and […]
A New Reckoning
When I set out to write about the story of my grandfather’s tour in World War II and his life leading up to it, in a way I knew the story that I wanted to tell: A man devoted to his country, his family, his men; a man who served honorably from the beginning to […]
