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Recently, I lost my father, a USMC WWII and Korean War veteran. He survived my mother (A WWII Navy WAVE) by 12 years, and He never really took an interest in life after she died, but he did talk about his experiences a great deal.
With our "Greatest Generation" passing at about 2,000 a month now, those who experienced those wars are disappearing so quickly.
My question is, I have my father and mother's stories of their experiences written down, and as a writer, I have been considering putting their story out, to remind people that there once lived a generation who literaly saved the world. Because they are both gone, I'd probably write it as a novel, based on their lives, instead of the first person account that my father wanted to publish, but he died before we finished even the first chapter.
What say you? Should I go ahead and finish his story or simply let it go?
With our "Greatest Generation" passing at about 2,000 a month now, those who experienced those wars are disappearing so quickly.
My question is, I have my father and mother's stories of their experiences written down, and as a writer, I have been considering putting their story out, to remind people that there once lived a generation who literaly saved the world. Because they are both gone, I'd probably write it as a novel, based on their lives, instead of the first person account that my father wanted to publish, but he died before we finished even the first chapter.
What say you? Should I go ahead and finish his story or simply let it go?
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I say FINISH IT my brother, their story needs to be told...your right that generation saved the world we need to honor that and them.......
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Cpl Glynis Sakowicz
Thanks for the thoughts. At first, it was a way of overcoming the grief... putting together all those little notes I had, and then at some point, I realized what I had... and that maybe others might be interested in seeing a human side to history that we are loosing so very fast. I went to lay some flowers at my parent's graves last month, and it saddened me to see that so many hundreds of new headstones were there now, at Ft Sam, in San Antonio.... so many leaving us so fast...
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Having interviewed artists and creatives over the last year or so, I can say that if there's something calling you to share the stories, JUST DO IT, as the Nike slogan goes. Not sure how or what to do? Get started, and along the way you'll be amazed at the people and things that show up.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe
p.s. Thought this was worth sharing as well -
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe
p.s. Thought this was worth sharing as well -
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