July 11, 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 21, 2023 5 Comments
The Candee Rubber Company could be one of the world’s largest firms that you have never heard about. The L. Candee Company of Connecticut built the world’s largest rubber shoe factory and sold galoshes to millions of people around the world. At one time in the 1890s they made 30,000 pairs a day!