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		<title>Lucky 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like athletes and actors, soldiers in World War II were notoriously superstitious . . . unless they were not.  Probably as much effort went into denying superstition as to obeying its dictates.  Either way, superstition&#8211;the belief that future events can be controlled through rituals and talismans&#8211;commanded a great deal of attention on the seas, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=315&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Pilots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this week I traveled to California to meet and interview eight World War II veterans for our documentary film on cartoonist Bill Mauldin.  As always I learned much, and each story was unique, worthy of its own study. But I was particularly struck when, during some downtime on the set, two pilots, Art Hicks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=312&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Kill or Be Killed&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I see one of our regular and most extroverted World War II veterans, Rev. Bob Armstrong, he unfailingly mentions a sign he saw on Tulagi in the Soloman Islands in 1943.  &#8220;KILL OR BE KILLED,&#8221; the sign declared in the name of Admiral William &#8220;Bull&#8221; Halsey.  When I ask Bob what that means to him, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=307&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rocket Scientist (Update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I wrote about my conversation with Henry Hoffstot, a former Army counterintelligence agent whose unit was in on the capture and brief interrogation of German rocket scientist Werner Von Braun.  Henry remembers conversing with Von Braun as a Signal Corps photographer captured footage of the newly captured prize.  I&#8217;m happy to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=303&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Only in Our Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ll be home for Christmas&#8221; is the optimistic refrain of soldiers and sailors heading off to war.  When war begins, few can imagine it being anything but swift and decisive.  It&#8217;s only after initial encounters with the enemy that confidence and bravado start to give way to ambivalence and grim determination.  Folks back home begin to yearn for days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=292&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fine article on the Veterans Breakfast Club appears in today&#8217;s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  The article&#8217;s author, Margie Smykla, attended our year-end breakfast in Pittsburgh&#8217;s South Hills and captured well the spirit of the event: Veterans gather to remember Christmases past Thursday, December 24, 2009 By Margaret Smykla Three days after taking part in the Normandy invasion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=289&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rocket Scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I met a dapper and articulate World War II veteran named Henry Hoffstot.  We spoke on the phone a couple days ago, and he talked demurely of his time in the 44th Infantry Division in Europe in 1944 and 1945.  &#8220;I suppose one noteworthy thing happened while I was there,&#8221; he finally said.  &#8220;We captured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=274&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Burden of Memory</title>
		<link>http://veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/the-burden-of-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it better to forget? This question comes to mind as I think about two veterans I&#8217;ve talked with recently, one with a near-photographic memory and one with trauma-induced amnesia.  The amnesiac is Chuck Strauss, a vet who lives at a retirement community near my house.  Chuck was a replacement soldier in the 84th Division.  He entered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=250&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Embarrassing Correction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get plenty of letters and phone calls from World War II veterans who have read my book BILL MAULDIN: A LIFE UP FRONT and appreciate how it captures some of their experiences of war.  It&#8217;s hard to explain how gratifying it is to receive such messages.  I feel validated as a writer and historian. But a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=263&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airmen&#8217;s Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Kanel flew fifty missions as a B-24 pilot in World War II.  Against orders, he kept a journal with detailed accounts of every mission.  Reading over them today, he can&#8217;t believe what he saw and experienced.  Fires, explosions, flak tearing into vulnerable bodies.  Much of what he wrote, he said, is unfit for sharing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veteransbreakfastclub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9546041&amp;post=252&amp;subd=veteransbreakfastclub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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