Comments for Vanishing Memories

Comment on Goodbye Picasa Web Albums by Andrewski23

Andrewski23 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:58:15 +0000

Ha ya hope you make more that rock

Comment on Goodbye Picasa Web Albums by Andrewski23

Andrewski23 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:57:25 +0000

Hope make more

Comment on The Pin That Tells a Story by Sandy Quinn

Sandy Quinn — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:22:03 +0000

Hi, the general public may not order DAR pins or insignia. It is only members who can purchase them at the official DAR jewelry store. Pins are earned or are commemorative.

Comment on Red Poppy Memories by M.

M. — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:15:52 +0000

Americans might be interested in tracking 1915 ‘In Flanders Fields’ as it became known in the United States following its publication just before Christmas 1918 in England. As early as 1916 “Answers” were being published, as the US entered the war even set to music by Spross, Sousa and others.
By early 1918 spring, your troops in Europe, more responses are composed re his challenge to continue the fight to defeat the enemy and your own soldiers lying in Flanders fields. Galbreath, Lillard, Negley, Mitchell, Armstrong…Of interest on the TRENCHART website are images of decorated
shells using the Canadian soldier poem and American civilian one. Wonder
sometime how many in the now realize IFF was written by a foreigner, it being so adopted by your war culture. If anyone knows more of the use at Arlington Cemetery of IFF and Canadian Edna Jaques’ post Armistice poem “Flanders
Now” it would be interesting. Bauer & Black was still advertising the Philip Lyford ad imagery for a 1919 calendar !

Comment on Red Poppy Memories by neddy

neddy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:44:46 +0000

M. — I am sorry for the typo. Thank you for taking the time to point it out to me. I have corrected it.

Comment on Red Poppy Memories by M.

M. — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:34:04 +0000

Miss Michael could not have written her “Reply” as the McCrae poem was only published on Dec. 8 1915 over in London England, in PUNCH magazine. She also would not have been interested, and her country would not enter the war for another 2 years, and at that date civilians fussing about wearing a fake poppy would not be appropriate.
Her poem was composed in New York when US troops were in that area, in 1918, Nov. 9, apparently later published by a YMCA newsletter.
Her reaction would not have been to such a well-known soldier poem (Canadian) as “In Flanders Fields” – lots of “Replies” appearing in print and even musically.
What struck a American was an American painting of American doughboys, used in advertising/promotion of surgical supplies, placed in the Thanksgiving issue of the Ladies’ Home Journal – startling full colour in a black and white issue – which coincided with an Armistice in the fighting. Bauer and Black ad,
You can google and pick up an image, dated and page number shown.

Comment on I’m Nobody by Coni J. Thompson

Coni J. Thompson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:36:55 +0000

Sharing memories and logging them is valuable information to someone who may have never had an opportunity to know you. I have learned so much about ancestors from 100 or more years ago by reading tales and accounts that have been documented at some point by somone or some document. I think what you are doing is great. It is a way to share your life with others even if you feel you are a nobody, and will be valuable if you ever become a famous somebody – even if to a decendant.

Comment on My Friend Geri by Edna Barney

Edna Barney — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:15:42 +0000

I sincerely appreciate your comment Bob. My friend Geri was a WASP during World War Two. As of Friday, the 30th of December 2011, she is an angel in heaven.

Comment on My Friend Geri by Bob Swanson

Bob Swanson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:00:45 +0000

Our deepest sympathies. We just read her obit here in the Casa Grande newspaper. Never had a change to meet her, but obviously she was very special.

Comment on I’m Nobody by neddy

neddy — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:12:30 +0000

Mike – I am sorry not to be able to shed any light on YDNA testing involving Stinsons of Buckingham County.