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Peace on Earth

by Andrew Himes, executive director of Voices in Wartime Education Project

Thanks to my friend Tim Harris for telling me about this magnificent cartoon from 1939 on his blog, Apesma's Lament.


When the war is over

by Rich Moniak, Voices in Wartime Staff

It was a quiet holiday here in my Southeast Alaska home. The landscape wasn’t white, the inside wasn’t decorated, and my children were elsewhere. My oldest son, Michael, was in Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, thousands of miles and dozens of hours away from Iraq, where he spent Christmas two years ago and may return to spend the next one.

Haunting voice of 'O beautiful death'

by Rich Moniak

"The neck of the cavalry-man, with the bullet through and through, I examine;
Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard;
(Come, sweet death! be persuaded, O beautiful death!
In mercy come quickly.)"

Uncle Sandy in World War 2 – Part Two

by Andrew Himes

A few days after the wedding I called up the Sandberg house in Chattanooga, Tennessee and spent a couple of hours talking to Uncle Sandy and my Aunt Jessie about his time in the war.

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