Dandi Mackall
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I've based this novel on my parents' true story. They were Army Dr. and Army nurse in WW2, and they left me over 600 letters, tied in boot strings and untouched since 1945. Anyone else the kid of WW2 parents?
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Carol Savedra
I enjoyed your book very much, especially having grown up in Hamilton myself, with Dr. Daley and Nurse Dorothy to take care of us when we were sick. We lived there from 1968-1978, and one of my sisters still lives there.
I found the stories fascinating, and had a hard time believing any of it was fictional. You told your parents’ story beautifully. It made me wish I could go back in time and ask Dr. Daley a lot of questions!
A funny story about your dad: I think it was in 3rd grade when I went through a phase of not wanting to go to school. My mom knew I wasn’t sick (I didn’t know this at the time), and she must have been in cahoots with Dr. Daley, because he gave me THE WORST TASTING lime-flavored medicine ever! When I was old enough to understand the psychology behind it, my mom told me it wasn’t really medicine at all. I wasn’t supposed to like it, so I would decide to go to school, rather than submit myself to that stuff. To this day, I can’t stand the smell of lime. Haha! Dr. Daley had a wonderful sense of humor.
Thank you for sharing your parents’ love story!
I found the stories fascinating, and had a hard time believing any of it was fictional. You told your parents’ story beautifully. It made me wish I could go back in time and ask Dr. Daley a lot of questions!
A funny story about your dad: I think it was in 3rd grade when I went through a phase of not wanting to go to school. My mom knew I wasn’t sick (I didn’t know this at the time), and she must have been in cahoots with Dr. Daley, because he gave me THE WORST TASTING lime-flavored medicine ever! When I was old enough to understand the psychology behind it, my mom told me it wasn’t really medicine at all. I wasn’t supposed to like it, so I would decide to go to school, rather than submit myself to that stuff. To this day, I can’t stand the smell of lime. Haha! Dr. Daley had a wonderful sense of humor.
Thank you for sharing your parents’ love story!
Stephanie Fitzgerald
I’m not, but both sets of my husband’s grandparents were enlisted. His paternal granddad was at Normandy, and returned to the U.S. on the Queen Mary packed in like a sardine! (But he sure was grateful!) His other grandfather was a Marine at Iwo Jima, a fact that he did not disclose until just before his death in 2014.
Jaina Rose
I'm not, but my great-uncle was a soldier at the Battle of the Bulge! He's passed on now, sadly, but he received free health care for most of his life because of ear injuries he sustained during the battle.
Kathleen E.
I am looking forward to reading your story! My favorite uncle was in and out of our home and I missed him. I was too young to know where he was but his absence I was aware of! Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
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