I just stumbled on two YouTube videos related to Joan Furey, whose story I tell in my book, Bringing It All Back Home.
The first is an ABC news segment, recorded in 1969.
Missing Airman Accounted For
Airman Missing from Vietnam War Accounted For
Published December 09, 2013 (by the US Air Force)
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO, announced today that the remains of an Airman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Jr. of New Haven, Conn., will be buried Dec. 13, at Arlington National Cemetery. On Dec. 13, 1968, McGouldrick was on a night strike mission when his B-57E Canberra aircraft collided with another aircraft over Savannakhet Province, Laos.
Nice Feature on the Brooklyn College Web Site
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The Brooklyn College web site has a nice feature about the book.
“Phillip F. Napoli has logged more than 600 hours in conversations with many of New York City
The Greatest Generation is Disappearing / St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 9
“More than 16 million American service members were involved in World War II, with the vast majority of them surviving it. As of May, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that about 1.7 million of them are still alive.”
Women Warriors Describe Their Struggles
Women warriors described their struggles
Saturday evening, December 7 at the New York Public Library four women veterans of the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan gathered at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd and 5th Ave.) of the New York Public Library.
A part of the NYPL
Oral History in Museums Under Attack
Rob Perks, Oral History Curator/Director of National Life Stories at the British Museum in London has written a commentary for the British publication Museums Journal, entitled “Oral history in museums is under attack.”
In it he notes that the Museum of London has eliminated the post of oral history curator, at the same time that other institutions throughout Great Britain are doing similar things. Now, he asserts, no museum in the UK currently has an oral history curator. He attributes this to tightened museum budgets eliminating “extraneous” posts and reducing outreach efforts.
Military families bear invisible burdens
Their communities are often fractured, their concerns invisible, their lives misunderstood.
With the advent of the all volunteer military in 1974, the general American public is no longer forced to deal with the realities of military service. Today, less than .5% of the United States population serves in the armed forces. Writing in the New York Times Karl Eikenberry and David Kennedy today’s Armed Forces as
New York Veteran History Series: Women Warriors
Saturday, December 7, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd and 5th Ave.)
South Court Auditorium
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd and 5th Ave.)
South Court Auditorium
(http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2013/12/07/new-york-veteran-history-series-women-warriors-0)
Women veterans
More on Rudy Thomas and the Power of Oral History
At a panel presentation held at the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2008 called The Impact of Listening and Being Heard, Rudy Thomas said the following:
My grandmother raised me from 2 months old. She brought me here at age 16, I never lived with my mother, and I visited, but never stayed with her.
I had the opportunity to see [her] after 30 years and I wanted to talk to her about my life, One of the first things she said to me was,
Rudy Thomas
Rudy Thomas, a friend featured in the 2007-2011 Brooklyn Historical Society show “In Our Voice,” and quoted in the introduction to my book Bringing It All Back Home, passed away this weekend.
(photo credit: alexaguslaou.com)
Rudy fought with the symptoms of PTSD. In my 2007 interview with him he told me:
I have a patch on my jacket that says, not all wounds are visible.