[Magdalen] thinking about my mid-twenties

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2017 5:03 PM
>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] thinking about my mid-twenties
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>"There were lots of stories.  My nephew and niece don't strike me as  the
>type to be interested in war stories, so I suspect I'm the only one left
>holding on to some of these memories."
>W
>​rite them down.  Do a little every day and you'll be surprised how much
>gets done so long as you don't try to do it all "now."  Your descendants
>will bless you.​
>
>James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
>On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
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>> In a message dated 8/19/2017 10:39:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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>> I'm  reading my dad's privately published WWII memoir right now,
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>> Quite a story to tell.  Please do keep us posted as other sections
>> of this come out.
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>> So many of "The Greatest Generation" have stories to tell, and
>> most of these stories will disappear as the last of these veterans  pass
>> on.
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>> Both of my older brothers (George, b.1916 and James, b. 1923)
>> were in what was then called the US Army Air Corps.  George
>> was a flyer, and James was a physician who was one of those
>> drafted as he entered UW-Madison Medical School, and elevated
>> to captain upon graduating in 1946,  James was going INTO  the
>> Army - a required payback - as most were coming OUT of the Military.
>>
>> There were lots of stories.  My nephew and niece don't strike me as  the
>> type to be interested in war stories, so I suspect I'm the only one left
>> holding on to some of these memories.
>>
>>
>> David S.
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My father, born 1901, regretted being too young for WW1 and too old for WW2. In the mean time, before he met my mother he had been a LaSalle Christian Brother and left around 1925 around the time he met my mother. He or his brothers said that his vocation was his 
mothers, I wonder if she tried to keep him out of World War I, but he survived until . 1988 Instead of war stories we met his students from DeLaSalle, Mt Carmel, and beyond. They all thought the world of him

Joe