December 15, 2025
Tag: ernie pyle
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My Dad and Ernie Pyle
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On the back of this picture are the words My Friend, Ernie Pyle. As the years go by, I have developed a keener interest in my father’s war. He left our home in Paterson in January 1942. I was nine, he was thirty-one. He wrote letters every day. Those fragile documents would arrive two or…
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February 16, 2022 3 Comments
By age 17, John Lewis Childs had a well-planned and nearly perfected career path doing business as no one had done before. He sold seeds through a catalog. It made him one of America’s richest men. The post office in his small Long Island community grew so fast due to the volume of mail he received, they compared it to Boston and Baltimore.