https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks Ten father's and ten sons en-us 2019-11-08 18:51:25 UTC 2025-11-09 16:01:32 UTC hello@padlet.com mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/410774337 Mathews, Tom. Our Father's War. Broadway Books, 2005.]]> 2019-11-13 18:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/410774337 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/432025382 His dad could only bring himself to tell one story from his war experience and that was him coming home.
"For a long time after the war, he could bring himself to tell only one story, and that one happened to him on the day he got home" (chapter 1, pg 1).]]> 2020-01-15 18:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/432025382 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433435128 It was his birthday in August of 1945 when his dad was finally coming home from the war. Him and his mom where waiting for him, but they didn't want to get to close, to soon.
"This idea is to get a good look at my father without getting too close too soon" (page 2).]]> 2020-01-19 19:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433435128 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433436967 His dad still had flashbacks/memories of World War ll
"I wanted my father's love, he longed for mine; but from the day he came home, the kinetic energy of World War II struck at our center of gravity" (page 4).]]> 2020-01-19 19:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433436967 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433438210 The day my dad got home i was sitting on a dog house outside and when he got to me, he told me to jump, but i thought it was to far.
"No son of mine will be a coward" (page 3).]]> 2020-01-19 19:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433438210 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433439256 One day he asked his dad if he wanted to go back to the old battle grounds from where his dad fought.
"Look, why don't we go back over the old battlefields where you spent the six months before you came home and started to drive me crazy." And he said, "That's a great idea" (page 15).]]> 2020-01-19 19:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433439256 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433439849 On the start of their trip they where kinda awkward, but by the end they where close.
"It was a transforming trip. We were deeply suspicious of each other when we started, and when we finished, we made peace" (page 24).]]> 2020-01-19 19:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433439849 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433440323 Him and his dad never talked about the war, he always thought his dad had a secret. He thinks the secret is about the war.
"My father always had a secret, it seemed to me, and he would never talk about World War II. He also had a code of honor which was a refusal to talk about World War II. So to me, he was remote, moody. His mood shifted. He was a heavy drinker. And we just couldn't reach each other for our entire lives. And I began to think that that might have something to do with what happened to him in World War II" (page 43).]]> 2020-01-19 19:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433440323 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433441331 He thought his and his father's bond was unique and no one else has gone through it, but there is a lot more people like him.
"Yes, in the beginning I thought it was just me, just me and my father. But when I started to do the reporting on the book and just started to follow my own nose, time after time I ran into other people whose experience was almost the same" (page 52).]]> 2020-01-19 19:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433441331 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433442649 His neighbor was also in the war and couldn't tell the story until his last year of living. ]]> 2020-01-19 19:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433442649 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433443016 Him and his father where sitting together and his father said something about the war and busted into tears.
"We were sitting in a small cafe in Bagna di Lucca and all of a sudden, from nowhere, he leaned over and a great convulsion came up within him, and he broke into tears, and he said, "I killed so many people" (page 86).]]> 2020-01-19 19:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433443016 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433443377 He never told that to anyone, and it brought them so much closer.
"I've never said that to anyone. I've never said that to myself." And the secret came out, the code was cracked, and after that, we were able to talk and it transformed our lives" (page 87).]]> 2020-01-19 20:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433443377 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444143 After that day, we talked a lot about the war, he told me a lot of stories even though they where hard to tell. ]]> 2020-01-19 20:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444143 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444349 Me and my father went back to the battle grounds one day, and he showed me around every where.]]> 2020-01-19 20:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444349 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444699 When we got back he finally got the courage to tell my mom the stories.]]> 2020-01-19 20:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433444699 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433487282 He found some other kids like me that have gone through the same thing, and he decided to text them.]]> 2020-01-20 01:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433487282 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433487689 The other people texted him back and they decided to meet up.]]> 2020-01-20 01:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433487689 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433488688 They all met each other for lunch and just talked about the war and their experience.]]> 2020-01-20 01:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433488688 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433489131 On their drive home from their lunch with the others, him and his dad talked a lot more about the war. His dad cried a lot, but he was their to comfort him.]]> 2020-01-20 01:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433489131 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433489670 After that day they all met up, they got super close and thought of each other as best friends.]]> 2020-01-20 01:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433489670 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433490773 From this day on, him and his father where so much close then before and they also had friends to tell things like this to.]]> 2020-01-20 01:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433490773 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433491444 2020-01-20 01:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433491444 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433492422 The book My father's war relates to this book.]]> 2020-01-20 02:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433492422 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433492928 Another book that relates to this one is "The Things The Carried"]]> 2020-01-20 02:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433492928 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433493733 This book "Dad's maybe book" is talking about a guy telling his son's about his experience.]]> 2020-01-20 02:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433493733 mooreali0002 https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433495527 The book "Unbroken"]]> 2020-01-20 02:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mooreali0002/hvy89019ooks/wish/433495527