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The Spanish-American War of 1898 is written in the history of the United States as a symbol of the courage of soldiers and the incompetence of their commanders. San Juan, El Caney, Manila, and Santiago have passed into the hall of fame of the American armed forces along with Saratoga and Yorktown, New Orleans and the Alamo, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Normandy and the Ardennes, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Fourteen-year-old Joey Campbell knows that he is lucky to be one of the survivors of the school fire. But really, how much luck is involved when he is the lone student to stand up during a fire drill? The only one who insists on getting out of the classroom? Joey’s best friend, Maureen, thankfully decides to follow, but the remaining twenty-four people in Room E201 are swallowed in the mysterious blaze that engulfs their school. Other than Joey's classroom, the rest of the students heed the fire alarm and survive, but grief-stricken parents and classmates have no one to lash out against except Joey and Maureen. Behind a fence that his dad builds for their own safety, Joey deals with rage, sorrow, and helplessness in equal measure. Some solace can be found within the pages of his journal, but ultimately he must face the living in order to accept everyone and everything that is dead and gone.
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Pieter Pieterzen married Tryntje van de Lande in 1652 at Amsterdam. They had three children, 1653-ca. 1658. The family immigrated to America and landed off New Amsterdam in 1660. It is thought that the family settled at Espopus [Kingston, New York]. Family tradition states that the parents were killed by Indians ca. 1663 but this cannot be proven. Their son, Pieter Ostrander (b. 1653), married Rebecca Traphagen in 1679 at Kingston, New York. They had thirteen children, ca. 1670-1706. Descendants lived in New York, Ontario, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio and elsewhere. Some descendants spell their surname Hostrander.