CHA and Across Time and the Atlantic Ocean

I'm off on Saturday to attend the winter Craft and Hobby Show in Anahem.

We will be accepting orders during this time (January 22 to January 28th) but not processing them until I return. Then I will get them out just as soon as possible, in the order received, which usally just takes me two business days. In the meantime, thanks for your patience.

The other day I received an email from France from a young man who collects World War II memorabilia to honor those who liberated his country from the Nazis. He purchased an old trunk from a flea market in the suburbs outside Paris and it had the name "O. L. Eckerson" on it. He did some research online and after going to the online Registry at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. found that I had honored my cousin who was in the Women's Auxiliary Corps and who later became a career military person and retired as an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. He found my email on the store website and contacted me. I sent him this picture of her taken at that time as he had sent me a picture of the trunk. She was actually my first cousin once removed but was more like an aunt as she and my father and her sister had grown up together in the same farmhouse in New Jersey. Why the trunk never made it back home is a mystery, but it is certainly fascinating that it turned up again after all these years.

    

I have also honored my father and mother in the Registry and if you know someone who served in the armed forces during the War, or contributed to its efforts as my mother did, you can honor them too at www.wwiimemorial.com   

I'm off on Saturday to attend the winter Craft and Hobby Show in Anahem.

We will be accepting orders during this time (January 22 to January 28th) but not processing them until I return. Then I will get them out just as soon as possible, in the order received, which usally just takes me two business days. In the meantime, thanks for your patience.

The other day I received an email from France from a young man who collects World War II memorabilia to honor those who liberated his country from the Nazis. He purchased an old trunk from a flea market in the suburbs outside Paris and it had the name "O. L. Eckerson" on it. He did some research online and after going to the online Registry at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. found that I had honored my cousin who was in the Women's Auxiliary Corps and who later became a career military person and retired as an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. He found my email on the store website and contacted me. I sent him this picture of her taken at that time as he had sent me a picture of the trunk. She was actually my first cousin once removed but was more like an aunt as she and my father and her sister had grown up together in the same farmhouse in New Jersey. Why the trunk never made it back home is a mystery, but it is certainly fascinating that it turned up again after all these years.

    

I have also honored my father and mother in the Registry and if you know someone who served in the armed forces during the War, or contributed to its efforts as my mother did, you can honor them too at www.wwiimemorial.com