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Books and reading and more books--Oh my!
Hello from the Pacific Northwest! I'm so glad I found this site. Here's a little about me.
I learned to read from a first grade teacher who I thought was so cool because she wore knee socks with her mini-skirts, and she taped candy to our papers if we had a perfect paper. Those were the days.
I taught elementary school for fifteen years, until a back injury ended that chapter of my life. I never dreamed I would do anything else but teach and I floundered for about a year. And then I started writing.
My book, BREAKING THE CODE - A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY INTO HER FATHER'S SECRET WAR is about my quest to figure out why my father, a WWII veteran, suddenly started having nightmares and flashbacks more than 50 years after the war.
I have breakfast with my dad once a week. I spend time with a little girl I mentor once a week too. And I believe that God invented teenage boys so that there would be someone to explain technology to me.
I love bookstores. When we are out of town, my family will go to great lengths to distract me from seeing one we are passing. But I seem to have bookstore-radar. It's like Radar on that sitcom M*A*S*H*. I just know. It doesn't even have to be in sight yet. If it's there, I get a tingley feeling in my bones.
I guess that's enough about me. I haven't looked around much. I'll do that now. ~Karen
_________________ My website: http://www.storymatters2.com Breaking the Code - a Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks) came out on 11/1/11. Buy at your local bookstore, or on Amazon
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Re: Books and reading and more books--Oh my!
Welcome, Karen. I'm a new member myself and still in the process of checking out this forum.
I'm curious about what you learned about your father's war flashbacks, but I guess I'll have to get the book to find out.
Well, I'll continue exploring this forum and look forward to new adventures here.
_________________ Currently reading Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Recently completed The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Beaumarchais by Maurice Lever, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, My Turn at Bat by Ted Williams, Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
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Re: Books and reading and more books--Oh my!
What I learned is that he hadn't sat behind a desk for the whole war, like we'd thought he had. He'd actually worked in Naval Intelligence, breaking a top secret code based on the Japanese language (Katakana). This was the framework for what later came back as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Does that answer your question? ~Karen
_________________ My website: http://www.storymatters2.com Breaking the Code - a Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks) came out on 11/1/11. Buy at your local bookstore, or on Amazon
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Well, that was certainly a valuable skill! By now most people know that we were able to win the Battle of Midway and thereby turn the tide in the Pacific theater by breaking the Japanese code before the attack on Midway.
Was he in Hawaii, or on mainland US?
_________________ Currently reading Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Recently completed The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Beaumarchais by Maurice Lever, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, My Turn at Bat by Ted Williams, Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
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Re: Books and reading and more books--Oh my!
He was stationed on Oahu at Pearl Harbor, a few years after its bombing. And actually, it is unusual that the average American knows about the part code-breaking took in ending the war. It seems you have some knowledge in the area. Are you military, by any chance? ~Karen
_________________ My website: http://www.storymatters2.com Breaking the Code - a Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks) came out on 11/1/11. Buy at your local bookstore, or on Amazon
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Chris - yes, it's a true story. Dad knew Schoefield well. In fact, we went back to Oahu in 2007 hoping that doing an informal, and long-overdue memorial for his friend he lost during the war, might help with his Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. We visited Schoefield. It was on a tour and ours was the only group that actually got to stop there, have a bit of a tour, and eat lunch where the families dine. Anyway - so I've been there. This whole thing has been quite a journey with my father (9 years). ~Karen
_________________ My website: http://www.storymatters2.com Breaking the Code - a Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks) came out on 11/1/11. Buy at your local bookstore, or on Amazon
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Thanks, Chris. That's great to know! I'll send a copy as soon as it comes out.
_________________ My website: http://www.storymatters2.com Breaking the Code - a Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything (Sourcebooks) came out on 11/1/11. Buy at your local bookstore, or on Amazon
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