World War Stories

I've already discussed my mom's babysitter to Frances, but her story is amazing. Her name was Mia and she was about seventeen in '44 and lived in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her best friend was Jewish, the love of her life an American Air Force officer, and she herself was forced by the Germans to be an architectural draftswoman designing top secret sumarine bunkers, hidden V2 rocket facilities, and concentration camps. I hope to make her story a collaborative fiction piece.

8 年前

That is quite amazing story! It blows my mind the kind of things people experienced during both WW1 and WW2

8 年前

I am astounded at how young she was during all that. You know what the highlight of my life was at 17? I played a nun in a school play and got a standing ovation....yup that's about it.

8 年前

@Frances, Pfff I'm 17 right now and the highlight of my life is the two week long trip I took with my best friend and her family to Florida (rare do I ever get to travel very far) XD

8 年前

@Nicole Armas, that sounds like it was fun though! did you go for the beaches or for Disney?

8 年前

@Frances, what play was it? I was head of the technical theatre department in high school, I love hearing about others who did performing arts

8 年前

@Frances, We went to the beach, some national parks, and the Kennedy Space Centre

8 年前

@Andrew Knight, haha it was a dinner theater production that was written by a friend of mine and we produced it. Lots of people came, it was super fun. I was a singing hillbilly nun who was a former hippie...it was awesome.

8 年前

@Frances, That sounds hilarious!

8 年前

@Frances, awesome! I love student written and directed works! My all time favorite was a play called "Hit, Luv, and Jews" and was a satirical piece of ridiculousness that potrayed Hitler as a gay, misunderstood artist!

8 年前

@Andrew Knight, that sounds like that scene in "The Producers" where the guy sings "Heil myself"!

8 年前

@Frances, never seen it! This play had a horribly offensive rendition of Mulan's "Be A Man" sung by Lucifer as Hitler prepares to take on the art school he was rejected by!

8 年前

@Andrew Knight, oh my goodness! that's wild!

8 年前

@Frances, anyway, circling back around, when I was 17 I was doing intelligence processing for the Air Force ROTC in conjunction wit h the DEA, but that's not even a drop on the bucket compared to what the Greatest Generation accomplished!

8 年前

@Andrew Knight, they really were one of the most interesting groups of people ever to grace the past century

8 年前

@Frances, that's the truth. Unfortunately, hardship breeds the most shapely of diamonds. I wonder if we're heading into a tougher world climate, and if our generation will be able to rise to the occasion

8 年前