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As you read these stories, you will discover that many veterans have memories, nightmares, and mental and physical disorders that may never go away. It is a troubling state of affairs for those who survived these wars.But there is another dominate theme running through this book, a willingness to serve their country with honor.

As you read these stories, you will discover that many veterans have memories, nightmares, and mental and physical disorders that may never go away. It is a troubling state of affairs for those who survived these wars. But there is another dominate theme running through this book, a willingness to serve their country with honor.

The twenty-seven women featured in the book are names from the past and those currently engaged in making our community stronger and more responsive to those in need. It was my intention to memorialize those whose lives were dedicated in helping others including those who fought and struggled to win the right for women to vote. I have come to the realization, after visiting with these women and doing the necessary research and observing the li...

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It was my intention in this book to capture an older Oshkosh from those who lived it and from a few who, in their own artistic ways, are trying to retrieve it. It's a storybook journey of an Oshkosh of horsedrawn and electric streetcars, a city of unparalleled in women's fineries, and one that saw its future in aviation. You will travel through the topsyturvy years of the Great Depression and of the war years that follow, and read the captivat...

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Some would say we can't ever go back, but Ron La Point's Oshkosh: ASouthSiderRemembersdisproves that notion. His literary effort is a treasure drove of memories and a gift to his contemporaries who were also children of the south side during the 1940s and 1950s. To the rest, who didn't share this experience, his odyssey of memories can be the catalyst to seek out our own origins and recapture some of the innocence and charm of a bygone era. So...

This is a book of collected works compiled and written by community members who chose to share their remembrances of the past. The stories take place in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the 1940s and '50s, although a few stories go before and a few beyond. They are stories of corner taverns, grocery stores, churches and self-contained neighborhoods, of sports and sport heroes, and icons of the past, of movie theatres, a dank basement, and a chance encou...