A Fall Day in Amsterdam
Being a Tourist Again In October, the Dutch weather turns bad. The days are darker,…
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A German Story
Beware that what follows is a raw account of a dad granted an unexpected…
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Market-Garden: Just Grass
In September of 1944, the German army in the Netherlands found itself in disarray. Only…
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A New Chapter
Rotterdam, 1840: Leaving Everything Behind It was an overcast day as typical of Rotterdam in…
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Belgium. In Flanders Fields
The Fields of Flanders Then and Now I’d have to imagine that they thought we…
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France. The Moveable Feast.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then…
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France. Day of Days
D DAY -1. H HOUR -14 Along the Loire River southwest of Paris was the…
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Portugal. The Mariners.
Portugal is a proud country. At the westernmost expanse of the European continent, the Portuguese…
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Germany. The Fatherland.
Family Roots In the fall of 1941, William McCready, an Irishman from East Orange,…
