adrienne
@adrienne
Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy holidays, happy whatever and wherever you are today 💜 I’m in an introspective place this week and haven’t been casting as much. This morning I’ve been reading my grandfathers war memoirs, which he wrote in his 80s based on all the letters he sent home to his love, my grandmother. Coincidentally I happened to read about what he did on Christmas Day 1944, 80 years ago. “I stood an eight hour watch as JOOD (Junior Officer of the Deck) on the quarterdeck from 0800 to 1600 today. I took over from another officer’s watch so that he might spend Christmas Day with his wife” I’m only a third way through and it’s covered about a 15 month period so far since he got called from the draft to serve. So many mundane details of his time. It is a wonderful gift to have.
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Christina BorrowLucid | Chones
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Wow! are they hand written? or do you have them saved digitally? I really wish my Granny had journaled!
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adrienne
@adrienne
He typed them up, on claris works (an early word processor). We have them saved as .doc files. I sent it to my kindle for reading. I’m considering publishing them- I don’t know who would be interested in them but the cost of self publishing is so low these days seems like it might be worth the effort
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