Some pictures stick with you.
Here are the ones from last week, which we posted here on Substack or on our Bluesky page or YouTube Channel, which have stuck with me:
Jack Kennedy and his older brother, Joe, Jr., on the beach in Massachusetts.
President Macron presenting the Legion of Honor to Ben Miller, a former paratrooper medic, who flew to the Normandy beaches on a glider on D-Day evening to care for the wounded.
This road sign advertising a motel whose claim-to-fame was “ALL HOTS.” Our readers came up with several amusing interpretations.
This picture of an “A&W” root beer stand. In my Iowa hometown, the A&W was a prime destination for new teenage drivers.
This real-life Texas cowboy. Raise your hand if you know who Rowdy Yates and Gil Favor are.
This contestant in the “Miss Victory” beauty contest in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July in 1942.
These boys diving into the lake at a Florence, Alabama, Boy Scout camp.
This soldier and his war dog.
This picture of immigrants cheering at the sight of the Statue of Liberty.
This Baltimore Sun photo of Babe Ruth knocking a pitch at Oriole Park in Baltimore, where he had begun his major league career years earlier.
This picture of Hitler arriving at his eastern military headquarters a few days before the unsuccessful assassination attempt involving Claus von Stauffenberg, who is standing at attention on Hitler’s right.
This staged photo for the US Army Signal Corps taken in 1944. Look at how young these guys were!
And finally…
This Sunday family dinner in 1944.
No phones.
Lots of conversation.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
— Brenda
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