Hello everyone and Happy Mother’s Day! This is probably the weirdest Mother’s Day ever. Here locally there’s always a May Day celebration with craft booths and great food in a local historic park and other things going on around town to celebrate mothers who are still here and those that have passed. Now, I can’t really describe how I’m feeling. My Mom is still here, lives close and due to some medical issues with my stepdad, I see them often. We’ll be taking them dinner from a local restaurant later and that will be the most we can celebrate. I hope the rest of you can find a way to show the women in your life who are mothers how much you appreciate them.
Not much else going on. I did have a wonderful conversation with Paul Mayer yesterday, just to do some catching up. Not much I can tell you there either, but he did ask me when my next blog was coming out. I laughed and said, “When I have something to write about!” So, here’s the deal. While there is all this time and we are sitting here at home I’d like for you to put on your thinking caps. In the past I’ve asked families to do a write up about their sailor, something I can post in the blog and share with others. So far I’ve had 2 takers over the 8 years I’ve had this website up. Here’s what I propose, 3 options:
1. Take the time to tell me about your STRONG sailor. Where was he born, did he survive? What was his life like before the war and after? Just any stories you’ve heard about him, funny, sad or otherwise.
2. Send me a snippet of information, a sentence or paragraph. Perhaps someone in the family recalls a funny story, something they used to say or do that stuck in the family lore. I would love to have a bunch of anecdotes to post up, and I don’t care if they don’t have anything to do with life on the ship, life before or after. We all love hearing about the other guys and what they were like.
3. Lastly, most of us had more than one person serving in the war, I know we did. My uncle Billy’s brother Gano was at the Battle of the Bulge. He survived and came home. I wrote a blog about Gano and it’s posted on 8/6/2015. Their younger sister Stella also served, and once I learn more about her role I plan to do a write up about this firecracker of a woman. She was something! That said, feel free to send me info about a man or woman who was not connected to STRONG, yet contributed to the war effort in their own way. There are so many stories out there. While we are in COVID mode, let’s find a way to share them.
*In addition, if you are a person who reads my blog and have a story to contribute about someone in your family, please email me and let me know. You don’t need to have a connection to STRONG to contribute.
I did get news from Ron Impello that the STRONG reunion in Dayton is still going forward in September. He hopes to have the newsletter and documents ready by the first of June. As I said up top, my family is dealing with some difficult issues medically and we are not certain we will make it up to Dayton as of yet. But, if any of you are considering it and the current conditions permit you to do so, I recommend finding a safe way to go up and meet some really nice people who have become family to us. Best case, we can head up there for a couple of days or just hold out for a big time in Newport, RI next year.
Please everyone, take care and stay healthy. No one likes the conditions we are living under right now. I miss my grandsons and my little nephews and all the little boy hugs. But we will get back to that and be together again!
Tammi
Not much else going on. I did have a wonderful conversation with Paul Mayer yesterday, just to do some catching up. Not much I can tell you there either, but he did ask me when my next blog was coming out. I laughed and said, “When I have something to write about!” So, here’s the deal. While there is all this time and we are sitting here at home I’d like for you to put on your thinking caps. In the past I’ve asked families to do a write up about their sailor, something I can post in the blog and share with others. So far I’ve had 2 takers over the 8 years I’ve had this website up. Here’s what I propose, 3 options:
1. Take the time to tell me about your STRONG sailor. Where was he born, did he survive? What was his life like before the war and after? Just any stories you’ve heard about him, funny, sad or otherwise.
2. Send me a snippet of information, a sentence or paragraph. Perhaps someone in the family recalls a funny story, something they used to say or do that stuck in the family lore. I would love to have a bunch of anecdotes to post up, and I don’t care if they don’t have anything to do with life on the ship, life before or after. We all love hearing about the other guys and what they were like.
3. Lastly, most of us had more than one person serving in the war, I know we did. My uncle Billy’s brother Gano was at the Battle of the Bulge. He survived and came home. I wrote a blog about Gano and it’s posted on 8/6/2015. Their younger sister Stella also served, and once I learn more about her role I plan to do a write up about this firecracker of a woman. She was something! That said, feel free to send me info about a man or woman who was not connected to STRONG, yet contributed to the war effort in their own way. There are so many stories out there. While we are in COVID mode, let’s find a way to share them.
*In addition, if you are a person who reads my blog and have a story to contribute about someone in your family, please email me and let me know. You don’t need to have a connection to STRONG to contribute.
I did get news from Ron Impello that the STRONG reunion in Dayton is still going forward in September. He hopes to have the newsletter and documents ready by the first of June. As I said up top, my family is dealing with some difficult issues medically and we are not certain we will make it up to Dayton as of yet. But, if any of you are considering it and the current conditions permit you to do so, I recommend finding a safe way to go up and meet some really nice people who have become family to us. Best case, we can head up there for a couple of days or just hold out for a big time in Newport, RI next year.
Please everyone, take care and stay healthy. No one likes the conditions we are living under right now. I miss my grandsons and my little nephews and all the little boy hugs. But we will get back to that and be together again!
Tammi
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