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After searching for her own father killed in World War II, Ann Mix founded the American WWII Orphans Network. The voices in this book belong to sons and daughters who for half a century have seldom spoken of their fathers or of their own lives after the deaths of their fathers. Memories revealed through interviews, letters, family histories and remembrances are remarkable for their honesty and quiet courage. 60 photos.
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Lost in the Victory : Reflections of American War Orphans of World War II
author
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Johnson, Susan Laughlin
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1574410334
print isbn13
:
9781574410334
ebook isbn13
:
9780585294681
language
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English
subject
World War, 1939-1945--Children--United States, Orphans--United States--Biography.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
D810.C4L64 1998eb
ddc
:
940.53/161
subject
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World War, 1939-1945--Children--United States, Orphans--United States--Biography.
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Lost in the Victory
Reflections of American War Orphans of World War II
collected by Susan Johnson Hadler and Ann Bennett Mix edited by Calvin L. Christman
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1998, Susan Johnson Hadler and Ann Bennett Mix
All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48.1984.
Permissions University of North Texas Press PO Box 311336 Denton TX 76203-1336 940-565-2142
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lost in the victory: reflections of American war orphans of World War II / collected by Susan Hadler and Ann Bennett Mix : Calvin Christman, editor. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-57441-033-4 (alk. paper) 1. World War, 19391945ChildrenUnited States. 2. OrphansUnited StatesBiography. I. Hadler, Susan Johnson, 1945 . II. Mix, Ann Bennett, 1940 . III. Christman, Calvin L. D810.C4L64 1998 97-26872 940.53'161dc21 CIP
Design by Accent Design and Communications Proceeds from this book will be donated to the AWON
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Dedicated to two soldiers who did not return from World War II and to one sailor who did: Sydney Worthington Bennett (19191945) David Selby Johnson, Jr. (19191945) Herbert Emanuel Christman (1908 )
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Contents
Editor's Note
Calvin L. Christman
xi
Preface
Susan Johnson Hadler
xiii
Introduction
Ann Bennett Mix
xvii
Vince: There Is a Part of Me down Deep Which Never Heals
1
Anne: I Was Born in the Wake of Death
7
Page viii
Bill: The Males in the Family Have Not Been Fully Blessed
21
Joyce: You Need to Talk to Your Daddy about Certain Things
31
Eric: I Don't Think You Ever Get over It
37
Connie: I Remember the Cake... The Package That Came Back
49
Damon: They Shouldn't Send People Like That to Fight Wars
59
Ellen: We Were Isolated and Very Different, and I Knew It
73
Clint: How Was It That We Didn't Count?
83
Ann: Every Memory Is Bittersweet
89
Clatie and John: We Don't Know How He Died
101
Sam: My Father's Dead and My Mother's Crazy
113
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John: The Hurt Never Goes Away
123
Nancy: Yes, I Am Your Daughter
129
John: When I Had My Own Children... I Didn't Know What to Do
133
Mary: You're Out There on Your Own
141
James: The Lost Pilot
151
Jim: I Am the Father
155
Roberta: I Never Got to Know You
163
Jeff: I Expect People to Die on Me All the Time
175
Sheila: My Father Probably Never Knew That I Had Been Born
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