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    In Bruges

    September 19, 2023September 29, 2025

    In the flat plains of West Flanders, Belgium, Bruges was our first travel destination…

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    Becoming Dutchish

    The Move

    September 12, 2023September 19, 2025

    I don’t know where our dog or our seven bags are but the line into…

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    Becoming Dutchish

    A New Chapter

    July 4, 2023September 23, 2025

    Rotterdam, 1840: Leaving Everything Behind It was an overcast day as typical of Rotterdam in…

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    Part IV – Cristobol

    April 3, 2023November 19, 2023

    The metal of the long steel prep table was cold on Stanley’s outstretched hands….

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    Part III – Going to War

    February 27, 2023November 19, 2023

    Letters Home – Part III – Going to War As we stood over Granny’s…

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    Part II – The CCCs

    February 17, 2023November 19, 2023

    morning fog hung on the fields and the frost still remained on the stalks…

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    A New Reckoning

    January 5, 2023November 19, 2023

    When I set out to write about the story of my grandfather’s tour in World…

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    French Polynesia

    November 19, 2022October 14, 2025

    The Birth of Polynesia If there ever was a paradise on this earth, it is…

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    Part I – A Fireside Chat

    September 26, 2022September 23, 2025

    A Boy in Kentucky, 1934 In the summer of 1934, Stanley Grimes was just past…

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    Prolouge

    July 29, 2022September 20, 2025

    Mostagenem, Algeria. February 1943.    0150 Hours   The recently promoted Sergeant of Dog Battery, Stanley…

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