Veteran's Day Breakfast
Name:
Veteran's Day Breakfast
Date:
November 11, 2014
Time:
7:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST
Website:
http://fentonrotary.org/
Event Description:
Fenton Rotary Hosts "A Thousand Letters Home, the Journey of the Letters"
A Thousand Letters Home author, Teresa Irish, will present the inspirational and life-affirming story of "The Journey of the Letters" at Spring Meadows Country Club on Veteran's Day, Tuesday November 11th at 7:15am. Following the 2006 death of her father, Aarol W. "Bud" Irish, of Saginaw, MI, Teresa opened the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 letters from WWII. Visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from Nov. 1942 to Dec. 1945. The fragile and yellowed pages were written to Bud's parents back in Hemlock, MI, and to the sweetheart who would later become his wife. From lonesome, moonlit nights listening to the Hit Parade, to the foxholes and front lines in Germany where Bud would receive the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart, to correspondence with the heartbroken mothers whose sons died by his side, this is a moving and historic story of life, loss, hope and perseverance, unwavering faith and true love.
A Thousand Letters Home author, Teresa Irish, will present the inspirational and life-affirming story of "The Journey of the Letters" at Spring Meadows Country Club on Veteran's Day, Tuesday November 11th at 7:15am. Following the 2006 death of her father, Aarol W. "Bud" Irish, of Saginaw, MI, Teresa opened the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 letters from WWII. Visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from Nov. 1942 to Dec. 1945. The fragile and yellowed pages were written to Bud's parents back in Hemlock, MI, and to the sweetheart who would later become his wife. From lonesome, moonlit nights listening to the Hit Parade, to the foxholes and front lines in Germany where Bud would receive the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart, to correspondence with the heartbroken mothers whose sons died by his side, this is a moving and historic story of life, loss, hope and perseverance, unwavering faith and true love.
