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U.S. arctic naval operations, 1943-44; "Operation Highjump" 1946-47; Bering Sea Patrol, 1948. Author is a Captain in U.S. Coast Guard.
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Popular parlor songs were the main form of secular musical entertainment in the early years of the United States. They were heard regularly in the homes of our principal statesmen, authors, intellectuals, professionals, and businessmen. Laborers and slaves also sang them. They were the principal fare of concert and stage performances, and were freely interpolated into Italian operas, Shakespearean plays, lyceum lectures, and church services. In short, parlor songs played a dominant role in American cultural history. This was the music that Jefferson, Lincoln, Longfellow, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson enjoyed. Yet, whether owing to prejudice or misinformation, we still know little about the so...
In these pages, you are invited into the lives of my family as we worked to support ourselves. It will focus on our ability to adapt to the many challenges that came our way and what we able to do to overcome them. But challenges or not, we were a strong, supportive, and loving family. After you finish reading this book, you put down with a resolve to live better, to love better, to be better as a person, and to strive to make the world a better place for everyone. This book is written in a way that is uplifting, thought-provoking, and informative. There are parts that will make you smile, maybe even bring a tear, but most of all, it should cause you to reflect on your own childhood in a way that also makes you smile. When you read about the nine- and ten-year-old boys plowing fields with a two-mule team, you gain a greater appreciation for the contribution they made to this nation. Thank you so very much for choosing this book to add to your home library.
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