The Okie Legacy: NW Okie's Journey Walking With Sadie One Hundred Years Ago, 26 January 1915, Tuesday WWII (1942-1945) Balloon Bombs In America More WWII POW Stories Listen To the People, Independence Day, 1941 POW Camp In Alva, Woods, Oklahoma

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Volume 17 , Issue 3

2015

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NW Okie's Journey

We have been down in Northwest Oklahoma for the last week working on a long overdo makeover of our home in Alva, Oklahoma. When we arrived in Alva last week it was bone-chilling and cloudy. But this Monday, 26 January 2015 seems a lot like Spring (or maybe even Fall) with temperatures in the low 70's and sunshine.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Where oh where has that master human been keeping herself lately? She has done gone and left this sweet little pug (Sadie) up here in the snowy mountains of the Southwest corner of Colorado.

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One Hundred Years Ago, 26 January 1915, Tuesday

One hundred years ago, 26 January 1915, Tuesday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia had the following front page headlines: "Germans Report British Lost Cruiser In Sea Fight." They admitted sinking of the Bluecher and other ships safe. English newspapers still feature Sunday's naval action. The facts of engagement were not given in detail. Admiralty added nothing to original announcement of victory. Austrians checked Russians. They stiffen their front in effort to halt Muscovite Invasion of Hungary.

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WWII (1942-1945) Balloon Bombs In America

In the waning days of the Pacific War Japan tried a last ditch ploy to hit the United States with a terror weapon. That weapon was the Balloon Bomb, or Fugo. It was supposed to set fire to the West Coast and drop anti-personel bombs randomly on the U.S. In research after the war it was found that the Japanese built 15,000 of them but only launched 9,300.

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More WWII POW Stories

Kiowa, Kansas Veteran Talks of WWII POW Experience - (story from the Alva Review Courier, Nov. 10, 1995, by Yvonne Miller) -- As a prisoner of war in Germany, this American Lt. (Mike Rose) lost 100 pounds in his 100 days of captivity. "There was lots of marching and very little eating," Rose said as he recalled those horrid days.

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Listen To the People, Independence Day, 1941

Written by Stephen Vincent Benet and printed in LIFE, Defense Issue, 7 July 1941. This dramatic poem is being presented over the National Broadcasting company's Blue Network at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, Friday, Juy 4, 1941. LIFE herewith prints the full radio script in order that its readers may follow the performance at that time.

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POW Camp In Alva, Woods, Oklahoma

WWII Prisoner of War Camp -- Looking south down Washington Avenue. (Photo taken by NW Okie, October, 1999. Operational 1942-1945, Located South of Alva, Oklahoma, Woods County

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