Continuing with dates that are important to my generation, we arrive at:
June 6, 1944—Allied Invasion of Normandy, France, Europe.
This was the beginning of the end for the Axis armies. It took until May of 1945, VE Day, to reach victory in Europe and August 1945 , VJ Day, for Japan to surrender.
Again, it impacted the entire world. We were still too young to appreciate the meanings of the dates, but eventually could look back and understand why they should be important to us.
Many of my generation had parents or other relatives who fought and/or died for the Allies. That meant for many of us kids, dads and uncles and brothers returned home from war and a process of re-acquainting began.
Some of us were affected by post-war economic factors and the lack of employment.
Those economic factors became the main reason why my parents decided to move to the territory of Alaska in June of 1948. And, for me, that began a life-long love affair with this wild land.
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| My mother and Jim peeling logs for our log home. |
A very interesting and thoughtful Post Gullible. Yes Victory in Europe was May 8th, 1945. I personally remember celebrating VJ day on August 14, 1945, as I was then less than a month from being 9 years old. Touching photo of your Mom and brother Jim peeling logs for your Alaskan home. Cap and Patti
ReplyDeleteYour family led an adventurous life. Few people thought of moving to Alaska in 1948. That was a far off land. It seems that quite a few of our family were ambitious enough to build our own homes, but yours is the only one I know that built with logs that were peeled and put in place by the family. I remember you and I wrote a couple of letters to each other, but our Moms kept in touch with letters, phone calls to Alaska were too expensive. Mom would read them to me. Mom told me that it took a while for me to get re-acquainted with my Dad after he came back from the service.
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