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06/06/1944

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On Jun 6, 11:21*am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
> 06/06/1944

I never forget.....it was my birthday. My dad was in the Navy in San
Diego, billeted at the Hotel Del Coronado, and got word that he had a
son. I still have the congratulatory telegram Mom got from him, and it
got into the papers that they had a son. When Mom mentioned it to the
nurses, they brought me in and undressed me so she could see for sure
that they had a daughter!!!
Nan In DE

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"Nan" > wrote in message
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> On Jun 6, 11:21 am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
>> 06/06/1944
>
> I never forget.....it was my birthday. My dad was in the Navy in San
> Diego, billeted at the Hotel Del Coronado, and got word that he had a
> son. I still have the congratulatory telegram Mom got from him, and it
> got into the papers that they had a son. When Mom mentioned it to the
> nurses, they brought me in and undressed me so she could see for sure
> that they had a daughter!!!

Happy Birthday!

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On Jun 6, 11:21*am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
> 06/06/1944

Thanks for reminding us of that longest day and those brave souls.

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"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> "Nan" > wrote in message
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>> On Jun 6, 11:21 am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
>>> 06/06/1944
>>
>> I never forget.....it was my birthday. My dad was in the Navy in San
>> Diego, billeted at the Hotel Del Coronado, and got word that he had a
>> son. I still have the congratulatory telegram Mom got from him, and it
>> got into the papers that they had a son. When Mom mentioned it to the
>> nurses, they brought me in and undressed me so she could see for sure
>> that they had a daughter!!!
>
> Happy Birthday!
>
>

happy birthday Nan, and here's hoping the happy couple are still around to
celebrate their 'son' (smile).
-ginny

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On Jun 6, 2:11*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > "Nan" > wrote in message
> ....
> >> On Jun 6, 11:21 am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
> >>> 06/06/1944
>
> >> I never forget.....it was my birthday. My dad was in the Navy in San
> >> Diego, billeted at the Hotel Del Coronado, and got word that he had a
> >> son. I still have the congratulatory telegram Mom got from him, and it
> >> got into the papers that they had a son. When Mom mentioned it to the
> >> nurses, they brought me in and undressed me so she could see for sure
> >> that they had a daughter!!!
>
> > Happy Birthday!
>
> happy birthday Nan, and here's hoping the happy couple are still around to
> celebrate their 'son' (smile).
> -ginny

Mom is and just turned 90 in March. We had a lovely chat lastnight on
the phone.

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On 6/7/2010 12:18 PM, Nan wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2:11 pm, "Virginia > wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Jun 6, 11:21 am, "Lew > wrote:
>>>>> 06/06/1944
>>
>>>> I never forget.....it was my birthday. My dad was in the Navy in San
>>>> Diego, billeted at the Hotel Del Coronado, and got word that he had a
>>>> son. I still have the congratulatory telegram Mom got from him, and it
>>>> got into the papers that they had a son. When Mom mentioned it to the
>>>> nurses, they brought me in and undressed me so she could see for sure
>>>> that they had a daughter!!!
>>
>>> Happy Birthday!
>>
>> happy birthday Nan, and here's hoping the happy couple are still around to
>> celebrate their 'son' (smile).
>> -ginny
>
> Mom is and just turned 90 in March. We had a lovely chat lastnight on
> the phone.

When my Mom passed away in 1994 I found an undeveloped roll of 35 mm
film, still in the aluminum canister. Took it to a local photo studio
(not one of those one hour jobs but a real photo studio) and they
developed the film. Turned out to be pictures made the day I was born,
September 23, 1939. Pictures of Mom and then Dad holding me as a
newborn, really caused a Wow! at our house. Value your Mom as long as
you can, my MIL lived to be 100 years old and we miss her now.

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George Shirley wrote:

>> Mom is and just turned 90 in March. We had a lovely chat lastnight on
>> the phone.
>
> When my Mom passed away in 1994 I found an undeveloped roll of 35 mm
> film, still in the aluminum canister. Took it to a local photo studio
> (not one of those one hour jobs but a real photo studio) and they
> developed the film. Turned out to be pictures made the day I was born,
> September 23, 1939. Pictures of Mom and then Dad holding me as a
> newborn, really caused a Wow! at our house. Value your Mom as long as
> you can, my MIL lived to be 100 years old and we miss her now.


Isn't serendipity wonderful.

Last December I received an email from a fellow in England who had come
across my father's wartime diary and some family photos and wanted to
return them to our family. He had been cleaning out the estate of his
late aunt. The woman had had an older brother who was killed in the war,
and that man had been the tail gunner in my father's plane. They had
been shot down over Denmark. My father had been able to bail out and
eventually escaped to Sweden and back to England,but he had been
presumed dead. Whoever it was that sent the personal effects of the crew
to their families had accidentally included some of my father's things
with his. They had sat in a drawer in that woman's house for more than
66 years and eventually found their way to me.

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On Jun 6, 10:21*am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
> 06/06/1944

(I think it's properly, "Lest we forget," meaning, "let's not forget,"
or "in case we might forget," but I could be wrong about that.)

I wasn't old enough to know what was going on.....

N.

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On Jun 8, 2:22*pm, Nancy2 > wrote:
> On Jun 6, 10:21*am, "Lew Hodgett" > wrote:
>
> > 06/06/1944
>
> (I think it's properly, "Lest we forget," meaning, "let's not forget,"
> or "in case we might forget," but I could be wrong about that.)

No, you're right about that. The OP fell prey to a common
grammatical error. (Two of them, actually.)

The dictionary definition of "lest" is "for fear that". So
"lest we forget" means "for fear that we should forget", or
as it is used here, "so that we do not forget".

Cindy Hamilton