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‘We Promised Our Mothers We’d Write’

Memorial Day 2025

Source: Library of Congress / Julia M. Haskell Collection. Julia Haskell, Army Nurse Corps (highest rank First Lieutenant), 6th Convalescent Center, 91st Evacuation Hospital, Tuy Hoa, Vietnam (1969).

Source: Library of Congress / Robert Wayne Allen Collection. (US Marine Corps, highest rank Corporal). Members of the mine sweep team resting at a small village shop at the end of the mine sweep operation, village west of Danang, Vietnam (May 1967).

“….And we held on to each other, like brother to brother / We promised our mothers we’d write….” Billy Joel, “Goodnight Saigon,” 1982

Thank you to the fallen veterans and the loved ones they left behind….

Etta’s Etceteras will return with regular content tomorrow, May 27.

A Tarantino Film with a Happy Ending?

National Best Friends Day is June 8

Source: http://www.CloserWeekly.com

American actresses Penny Marshall (left), as Laverne De Fazio, and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney in a promotional portrait for the American TV sitcom ‘Laverne & Shirley’, circa 1980. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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