blogs
GIOVANNI SULLA
During our 2017 pilgrimage to the battlefields of Emilia Romagna with the descendants of soldiers who fought in the 10th Mountain Division, my husband and I had the pleasure of meeting many Italians ........
A WINDOW ONTO THE PAST: LETTERS OF A WORLD WAR II SOLDIER
The discovery, more than two decades after his death, of my father’s World War II correspondence with my mother, opened a window onto a past of which I had no conscious memory. Just eight months ol ........
REMEMBERING A WORLD WAR II SOLDIER
It all started with a doll. My father may have souvenired weapons for friends when he returned from service in Italy in World War II, but for me, he had a doll. I knew nothing of war or fighting or ........
THE STORY OF A DOLL WHO SURVIVED MORE THAN 70 YEARS
If a doll brought back from the war in Italy can serve, generations later, as reminder of the soldier who fought there, how much more meaningful the soldier’s letters home to his wife! Franca ........