Annual Veterans Month Exhibit honors WWII Navy

The Niles-Maine Library District

gratefully acknowledges the generosity and insight shared in this exhibit by Niles resident, collector and historian, Chris Reuscher and his wife Laura.

Further details explaining the uniforms

of World War II can be read on Chris's website

http://www.usww2uniforms.com

“the place to discover and explore United States military uniforms & clothing of the WWII era.”

Charles “Chuck” Jacobs, the first World War II Niles resident, to be interviewed for the Niles Veterans History Project, served as Pharmacist’s Mate 2/C on the Destroyer Escort USS Sims which is depicted on the left in the exhibit backdrop.

Chuck’s interview and those of other veterans can be read upstairs in the Veterans History Corner

and via the library’s website at

https://www.nileslibrary.org/veterans-history-project

12th Annual Veterans History Project Breakfast

70 in all attended a library signature event on Friday morning, November 2, as 22 veterans participated in the  Roll Call.  The Sweet Reminder Duet as the Andrews Sisters provided the musical finale, adding new numbers in tribute to the Vietnam veterans now in attendance.

The veterans appearing in the picture are from left to right in the first row: Mike McNulty (wheelchair), Mort Elenbogen, Ira Graham, Kenneth Lee, and William Shipp. In the first row seated in chairs on the stage from left to right are Charles Matz, Harry Webber, Matt Wojtaszek, Irv Abramson, Bette Horstman, Arthur Shapiro, and Ray Marchetta. Seated in the second row from left to right are Don Gloor, Pat Gerard (not visible), Roger Salamon and Rolf Hellman. Standing in the last row from left to right are Gary Warner, Michael Tuscano, Dennis Nilsson, Martin Passarella, John Andres, Jr., and Russel Zapel.

Timely New Book Recommended for the Centenary of the November 11,1918 Armistice

"Meticulously researched"  "bold and bracing"

This "NEW" title is filed at 940.12 W356 in the 3rd Floor New Book Section

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Professor Wawro demonstrates that the American contribution was indispensable to the

Allied Victory.

Evanston Vet Center and DePaul Announce Morning Coffee Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 10 am

Evanston Vet Center Announces Hispanic Heritage Event, Thursday, September 27 at 11am

Niles-Maine District Library Adds Key Vietnam Reference Work

Michael P. Kelley's Where We Were in Vietnam: a comprehensive guide to the firebases, military installations and naval vessels of the Vietnam War, 1945-75 is shelved on the 3rd floor at 959.7043 K29 .

Plans Announced for Native American Veterans Memorial on the National Mall

A Massachusetts follower of this blog sent this item and a link to the White Wolf Pack web site article . There are 140,000 living Native American veterans of whom 16,000 are female and at present time there are 31,000 Native Americans in the American armed forces. The National Museum of the American Indian announced that the competition opens on November 11 and the finalist submissions will be chosen by January 25.

James R. Hardt, Laid to Rest

The ashes of  Vietnam-era Navy veteran and exemplary public librarian , Jim Hardt, were interred at Lake View cemetery in Libertyville, Illinois on Wednesday, June 27.

Readings chosen by family and friends included Robert Burns's Epitaph on a Friend 

AN HONEST man here lies at rest,

As e’er God with his image blest;

The friend of man, the friend of truth,

The friend of age, and guide of youth:

Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,

Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:

If there ’s another world, he lives in bliss;

If there is none, he made the best of this.

And

i carry your heart’ by E.E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Jack Weinberg,World War II Combat Veteran and Bronze Star Medalist, Rest In Peace

cover page of Jack's transcript, which can read on the library's website

Local Veterans History Project participant, Jack Weinberg, entered the service at age 18 in August, 1943. He passed away earlier this month.

Multi-Faith Veterans Gathering and Resource Sharing Scheduled Tuesday, June 26, 2018

 

This "breaking bread, restoring community" event over coffee for veterans will be held on Tuesday, June 26, from 1 to 3pm at 7649 N. Paulina St in Chicago, telephone - 773-262-2297.

Captain Groberg's story of "heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty"

Emigrating from France to the United States as a child, Florent Groberg is  the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. He is also the recipient of the Purple Heart and 2 Bronze Stars.

His story in this recently published book can be found on the library's 3rd floor at 958.1047 G87.

A full description of his citation and those of four other recent Medal of Honor recipients can be read at the military.com website.