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IMPERIAL HOTEL – FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT – EARTHQUAKES – HAITI (ISSUE 341)

By Freedom Lady | February 3, 2010

The past few weeks, the news has been dominated to some degree about the horrors of the earthquake in Haiti. Like so many other disasters, news report slants are changing somewhat from Rescue and Recovery to human interest stories, some great and heroic and some which leave a bad taste in one’s mouth.
Stories about [...]

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The Orient: A Strange And Unfamiliar Country, Part 2 (Issue 77)

By Freedom Lady | September 20, 2008

The mid-fifties was a time when the military bases for the United States Armed Forces were phasing out. After leaving Itami Air Base, we were reassigned to Nagoya, the home base for the Fifth Air Force. Most of the Fifth Air Force had already departed their base and many of the military buildings were vacant. [...]

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The Orient: A Strange And Unfamiliar Country (Issue 76)

By Freedom Lady | September 19, 2008

I was living in Tennessee when my husband, a helicopter pilot in Air Sea Rescue, was reassigned to Japan. This was in the mid-fifties. Classified as a military dependent, I had to wait six months before joining him there. In the meantime, I moved to Atlanta to be near my parents prior to my departure.
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