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Honoring Our Vets
This WWII cover of Look Magazine from May 29, 1945 is an appeal signed by the leaders of our armed forces urging the public to buy Bonds during the wars Seventh Loan Drive. Illustration by Frederick...
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Happy Thanksgiving
A home front Thanksgiving toast during wartime. Vintage ad 1942 Wishing all my readers a peaceful, safe and happy Thanksgiving! You Might Also Enjoy Something to Be Thankful For
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December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor
From the Archives: December 7, 1941 Just as 9/11 is a marker for this current generation, and November 22 was for mine, Sunday December 7, 1941 was a where-were-you-when-kind of day that was seared...
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The Danger of the “Other”
Learning from our past history, America could use a good dose of mental insecticide to vanish the racism and vitriol that has been infecting our country recently. 1942 Political cartoon by Theodor...
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The Fading Middle Class
The Middle Class Fades Away America’s middle class is vanishing before our eyes, fading away like a once cherished Kodacolor snapshot. Today the possibility of obtaining the American Dream feels as...
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Memorial Day a Day For Remembering
On Memorial Day we pay homage to all the soldiers who didn’t come home. To all those we lost in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi, and Afghanistan, this Buds for you! Memorial Day has the word...
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Gold Star Families Have Always Deserved Our Respect
Careless talk could lead to great suffering for a Gold Star Family. Today, Trumps careless, thoughtless talk has caused great suffering not only to Gold Star Families but to all Americans. Vintage WWII...
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GI Joe Becomes Joe College
Once upon a time colleges and home ownership were a privilege reserved for the rich. As the cost of 4 years of college education escalates between $100,00 and $200,000 we may end up replicating...
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Halloween Candy-Treat or Trick?
The scariest part of Halloween for many parents is the prospect of all the candy their children will consume once they’ve brought home their haul. Relax. In mid-century America a Snickers bar would...
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History – Attention Must Be Paid
We need to take a hard look at history. A Vanity Fair cover from July 1933 showing a despondent Uncle Sam seated on the Western hemisphere with storm clouds above can serve as a somber harbinger for...
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Kellogg’s vs Breitbart The Choice is Yours
After Tony the Tiger took on Pepe the Frog, Breitbart the populist home for the alt right has declared all out war on Kellogg’s. Once Kellogg’s pulled its advertising from that popular platform for...
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
Worth remembering from the archives: December 7, 1941 Just as 9/11 is a marker for this current generation, and November 22 was for mine, Sunday December 7, 1941 was a where-were-you-when-kind of...
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Merry Xmas to Our Military Men and Women
Bringing holiday cheer to our men overseas. Vintage WWII Coke Ad 1943 Remembering all our brave military men and women who won’t be home for Christmas! A Merry Christmas to All!
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Memorial Day- Remembering My Greatest Generation Dad
The Greatest Generation loses one more…. Memorial day this year takes on a different significance than other years for me. This year as the number of WWII veterans continue to dwindle, another former...
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Fire and Fury and The Rain of Ruin
Donald Trump’s thunderous threat to North Korea warning of the “Fire and fury like the world has never seen” is uncomfortably familiar. This uncanny echo has been heard before and no, not from Kim...
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Charlottesville Has Made the Past Present For Jews
How does a Holocaust survivor, a little boy who lost his family, now 70 years later and a proud American citizen endure listening his own President talk about the “good people” at the torch lit Nazi...
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Santa Claus for a Cause
A patriotic Santa comes to the aid of the Allies in this WWII Christmas advertisement for Interwoven Socks . Just as both sides in a war claim God on their side, so WWII American’s enlisted Santa to...
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I Married a Refugee
After WWII, my future husband and his family of Holocaust survivors lingered in an overcrowded Displaced Persons Camp in Germany waiting for a country that would accept them as politicians and a fear...
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Refugees- A Moral Obligation and a Call to Action
“Stretch out your hand in brotherhood, open your heart in compassion.” Just like my own Jewish family, White House senior advisor Steven Miller’s family was the beneficiary of immigration policies...
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Haunted By The Ghosts of Anti-Semitism
Just in time for Halloween the frightening ghosts and goblins of anti-Semitism past have arisen from their slumber. This virulent strain of hate never really disappeared, merely reawakened. And it is...
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