
A Date with . . . Tom Johnson
after the Wall Street crash of 1929 . . the public . . wanted heroes and the Dime magazines gave them those heroes. Continue reading A Date with . . . Tom Johnson
after the Wall Street crash of 1929 . . the public . . wanted heroes and the Dime magazines gave them those heroes. Continue reading A Date with . . . Tom Johnson
The story I’m linking to today first appeared in January although I only came across it via a segment on the BBC’s One Show on Wednesday. In 1975, as the Vietnam war was drawing to a chaotic close, a young Vietnamese woman became ill. She placed her infant son in the care of an orphanage whist she was hospitalised for treatment. Soon afterwards American soldiers removed the children from the orphanage for protection in the face of rapidly advancing Viet Cong troops. Subsequently American planes evacuated a large number of orphan children to the USA. Not to be out done … Continue reading Saigon to Belfast – and Back – With Love #WATWB