Category Archives: history

War brides: the untold story

Posted on September 25, 2016 by moonbridgebooks

War brides. They were out there, often alone in a world of white, figuring out how to fit in. In my Japanese mother’s case, she was in the midst of Midwestern cornfields raising children who were the only non-white bread … Continue reading →

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Grannie Annie kids tell WWII family stories

Posted on December 22, 2015 by moonbridgebooks

The heirloom silver spoon that stopped a bullet, a kind woman who saved the enemy and found a husband, hiding from Germans in North Carolina, a beach full of oranges—these are some of the stories found in Echoes From World … Continue reading →

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Some stories need to be shouted out loud

Posted on August 9, 2015 by moonbridgebooks

What a week it’s been. Besides the ugly news headlines that appear regularly these days, we’ve had the annual remembrances of the terrible suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As controversial as the bombings were, we can … Continue reading →

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