Writings, Musings and Poetry
John A. West
- My Father’s Letters from WWI (C0nt. and Final)Since my last post in June of my father’s letters from France, Ginger and I have decamped from South Carolina and relocated to our home state of Kentucky, where we have come to rest in the quaint little town of Versailles, about twelve miles from Lexington where family and friends live. Five months later weContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (C0nt. and Final)”
- My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)Published below are a few more of my father’s war letters written home from France, covering April to July 1918. During this time the German Army launched a major last-ditch offensive on the Western Front intended to defeat the Allies before the newly arriving U.S. troops could be fully deployed. Now enshrined in Marine CorpsContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)”
- My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)Below are the second batch of letters that my father wrote to family from the front in World War I. These letters cover the period from March 10 to April 21, 1918. Most of the letters relate to family, and particularly my father’s disappointment that he is not receiving many letters from home. During thisContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)”
- My Father’s War LettersWorld 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 HandAll 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 2022I 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”
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