John West

My Father’s War Letters

World War I, or as it was know among European nations – The Great War (in France, – La Grande Guerre) began on July 28, 1914, when German military forces invaded France, and ended over four years later by an armistice “on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 1918.” AtContinue reading “My Father’s War Letters”

A Winning Hand

All these years later I have a vivid memory of Christmas dinner 1950. I was eight years old and lived with my mother in a cramped walkup apartment on 68th Street in New York City. Mother was widowed at age twenty-six when her husband, my father, was killed in the Battle of Midway. He wasContinue reading “A Winning Hand”

A Prayer for Thanksgiving 2022

I was raised an Episcopalian, baptized at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Winton Place, Ohio and have attended Episcopal churches all my life. One of the great assets of the Episcopal Church is a prayer book called the Book of Common Prayer. Some history: The US Episcopal Church is the American branch of the ChurchContinue reading “A Prayer for Thanksgiving 2022”