https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor 1) Create your post under the appropriate heading & title it with the name of person whose letter you read 2) Provide a summary of their story. This should explain how they participated in or were connected to WW2 and why they chose to write to Mr. Brokaw. This should also include your personal reflections of what you read. Think: aspects of their story you appreciated, things that led to a greater understanding of war in general, new information about an event, things you learned, connections that can made to class... 3) Write your name at the end en-us 2023-02-27 17:05:26 UTC 2026-02-08 19:09:06 UTC hello@padlet.com edesimone https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2496712339 2023-02-27 17:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2496712339 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499963939 Letter 13-John L. Murphy]]> 2023-03-01 18:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499963939 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499966533 Mary chose to write to Mr Brokaw to tell her story about helping in the war effort and even enlisting into the military forces.  She explained how she went from helping as a sort of nurse to becoming part of the Marines. I think this story is very inspiring and interesting to learn about.]]> 2023-03-01 18:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499966533 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499970482 The letter was a young boy introducing us to his grandfather who fought in WWII, and was apart of the 82nd airborne division, it shows how courageous the grandfather was, and how he served his country even when he was injured, he kept fighting, sharing memories with russians he fought alongside, watching his friends die, etc. I learned about how the russians and US all shared vodka together and told stories at times, then other times they all fought together courageously. This gives a greater understanding of how war really was scary.]]> 2023-03-01 18:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499970482 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499970714 William Holton was a WWII Veteran who enlisted in the military in 1944. From the age of 14 after learning about the war, he was committed to joining the army and helping. He needed to get his mother to sign papers for him to join, which took a lot of convincing since his father died in 1936 and his mother promised that 5 kids would graduate high school. He did not directly participate in the war, rather was assigned to a shoemaking plant during the final months of the war. Later on, he worked on ships and was awarded medals for his service.]]> 2023-03-01 18:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499970714 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499976729 letter #22- Rosa Lee Newkirk
her husband Harold was a WWII Amry veteran, he had spent four years in the service, was a 1st lieutenant as a chemical warfare unit commander. She chose to write to Mr. Brokaw because she wanted him to learn that her husband and her father were both in the service, and that there will always be a flag on their graves. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499976729 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499978635 he wrote about the war in Europe he went through he served in the United States Navy.
got drafted he was shipped around to many different places to camps moved around to many different locations a lot ]]> 2023-03-01 18:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499978635 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499981064 In the letter, Betty talks about meeting a boy who she dated when she was young. And, he eventually got sent to Camp Walters in Texas for the army. However, years after she received a message stating that he was killed in action. Eventually she married someone else and moved on, but she will always have the memory of the suffering of women in WW2, and what could have been.]]> 2023-03-01 18:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499981064 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499981905 Letter #16- Victor Goehring. 

Victor Goehring was only 18 when he joined the service, he was sent to honolulu, where he stayed at his station, from there, him and his pot were sent to Okinawa. Here they had to travel a little over 30 miles where they were invovled in a shootout. It was a long battle and finally around 5:00pm they were sent to go retrieve wounded soliders and to fall back to shelter. back at shelter they were sent new recruits for those who passed away. There Victor Goehring met one of his closes friends Ben Daschiell. There returned back to the dront lines together in Okinawa, where sadly 5 minutes into the battle Ben was shot and passed away. Victor was finally discharged and spent his first hours home with Ben's family telling him the story and mourning with them. In conclusion, Victor Goehring wrote this story to speak out and be one of the many voices to truly explain what happen in WW2 and tell how bad it really was.]]> 2023-03-01 18:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499981905 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499982317 He wrote about May 25th 1943 at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky. And things he went through in the war. He even wrote about meaningful things he had went through. He talked about how he met a family and the little girl had become his shadow, she wouldn't go anywhere without holding his hand. He also wrote to tell about his father, a member of "The Greatest Generation". How he had to grow up without his father, and how it was to do so. He had spent Christmas 1944 in Oahu.]]> 2023-03-01 18:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499982317 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499983532 Helen wrote about her husbands time in the Air Corps. When the U.S joined WWII they were both teenagers, once her husband turned 18 he joined the Air Corps. After the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki he was sent to japanese held territory to retrieve American POW. 2 Japanese planes guided them to Saigon when they were 50 miles out. They arrived unharmed and were guarded over night, likely for their own saftey. In the morning they were escorted to the plane which was now filled with seriously injured Americans. They made similar trips 2 more times to retrieve more POW.
I think it must have been terrifying to fly into the airspace of people who you were fighting a week prior and not have any arms with them. What must have made it worse for them is that the peace treaty was yet to be signed meaning they could have still been attacked. It is nice to see that they were escorted to Saigon for safety by japanese pilots though.
-Matt Craig]]> 2023-03-01 18:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499983532 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499983910 Irma Dryden was an African-American woman who enlisted in the U.S. Navy to become a nurse and in this letter she writes about her trip from New York to Alabama where she had to deal with "Jim Crow" laws and segregation she also tells how the met her husband in the service at a party on the night of her arrival,despite her experience in Tuskegee she has no regrets. What I received from this story was the greatest generation as a whole,I say this because Irma,despite the challenges, she made the best out of her situation  ]]> 2023-03-01 18:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499983910 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499984502 letter #19 - Glenn Frazier 
Glenn wrote the letter to Mr. Brokaw  describing the horrors he had faced in a Japanese POW camp. Glenn wrote how when he had come back that dealing with his PTSD was hard and that the doctors had told him to just go out into the world and act normal. Glenn felt that he needed to drink until he passed out so that his dreams wouldn't be him reliving past memory of the camp.  he talked about how he was glad to enjoy all the freedoms that we have in America that the POWs weren't able to have. After reading the letter I learned more about how the Japanese treated their prisoners and how if some country were to invade the main land that their orders where to kill all the POWs. I learned that the terrible conditions they lived in will haunt them forever as he had written he woke up many times feeling body lice crawl on him or check his cloths to see if what he dreamed about was real.

]]> 2023-03-01 18:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499984502 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499985703 Mary wrote to Tom Brakow about her husband who served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, during WW2. She wrote this letter because of how it commemorated people like her husband and how it really appreciates people like him. She goes on to tell him about his experiences with her, during the war and post war experiences. She mentions how he was basically sent straight to camp after the Pearl Harbor attacks and how they only spent a couple months with each other after high school until he was sent to North Africa. She then goes on to mention how he was in the most deadly infantry with the most deaths per-capita. When he was in Italy German planes  dropped bombs over him causing him to have to amputate most of his right leg and lose key muscles in his left arm. Even though he had these horrific injuries he never complained once about them and even said that the German bomber was just doing his job. She mentions the connection he had with his fellow soldiers with them being closer than brothers and even when he went to Italy in the 80's he visited everyones grave who had died during the war.  Sharing her husbands experiences really puts into perspective what that generations mindset was of being understanding, staying together and always being grateful for what you have because someone could be going through harder times.

Saad Khan ]]> 2023-03-01 18:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499985703 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499989556 he grew up through the depression and decided to sign up for the navy he went to different places then went to japan where the u.s. was transferring naval forces from Europe then while he was in school 2 atomic bombs where dropped on japan he said he wished he could do more to contribute in the war but his age and fate determined his future ]]> 2023-03-01 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499989556 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499990739 Morris was a Navy Lieutenant on the USS Electra. He never spoke of the war to his daughter Barbara, due to an incident he watched during his service. A soldier named Hershel Burrell died right next to him on a plane due to a shell exploding right over their boat. He was the one that wrote to Burrell’s parents that their son died as well. If he was even slightly more positioned closer to Burrell, it would’ve been another officer writing to his mom about her son’s death. Fortunately, things eventually turned better for the poor man later on. Morris and his wife met while serving in the military, and they officially got together after the war ended. The reason Barbara wrote for her father is because she wanted to know more about her father’s service time. She found his files from the military after going through his stuff in the nursing home after his death.]]> 2023-03-01 18:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499990739 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499991527 The Letters is written by what seems to be a young male who was drafted into world war 2, he fought against Germany, and focuses on the unsettling facts of the concentration camp that he liberated, he mentions the poor unhealthy conditions they lived in, the amount of death that surrounded them, and how the Germans would take care of the executions, towards the end David also mentions that they seem to be led on by the governments censorship, and speaks about how there spouses receive the letter informing them of they're death .

-Kris johnson]]> 2023-03-01 18:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499991527 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499997833 Letter 13 - John L. Murphy
John Murphy was a WWII Veteran that entered the Medical Dept in 1943. When Japan Prepared an attack on Bougainvillea with them being combat ready he was assign a platoon. With him later saving two men that were bleeding get a medal.

]]> 2023-03-01 18:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2499997833 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500000342 Ted lived on the homefront and had family in the war and knew that people were scared to talk or think about the war. Especially his father. He also worked hard to help provide for the war.]]> 2023-03-01 18:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500000342 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500001257 She connected to WW2 because in December of 1941, her husband was enlisted in the navy and she was forced to join others in Red Cross classes.]]> 2023-03-01 18:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500001257 https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500003175 This letter is from Jane Sunderbruch who was a nurse for the 103rd Evacuation Hospital. She writes about meeting and marrying her husband, Dick, in 1943. They did not see each other for long because she was sent to Ireland and England for training in '44. Once completed she and the 103rd went to France. they stayed close to the lines and were the immediate response before sending the injured men back to the rear areas. In september of '44, Dick was sent to France as a combat photographer. A month later he survived a sniper bullet in the back of his neck. He later wrote to his family about his duties in Europe. Dick talks of disputes between Germany and Russia. Detailing German loss which they were ignoring. He had the chance to speak to some political prisoners in camps, most were jewish, but not all. The people he had conversation with explained they had been crammed into small train cars with nothing but small amounts of bread and water. They had been in them for a little over a week. Once they arrived in camps the majority starved. After being there for only 3 weeks, there were already mass graves filling up and piles of bodies waiting to be buried next. They slept on the floor and had nothing to cook or keep them warm. Doctors who were also prisoners were made to keep the people alive, but questioned the purpose of doing so. The camps were close to large towns and cities, enclosed in barbed wire. There was no effort to hide the monstrosities taking place. Dick then promises to show all the pictures he took in hopes of spreading the truth.]]> 2023-03-01 18:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edesimone/909zb10ge7ejyuor/wish/2500003175