Thursday, December 14, 2006

This would have been my mom’s 65th Birthday.

December 14, 1941 – It was a happy day for my grandparents, but she was born at the beginning of a war and tradegy.
December 14, 1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York

1941 - German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issued an order, according to which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15.000 Jews were shot at Drobitsky Yar.
December 14, 1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea

She possibly would have celebrated = 2003: Saddam Hussein captured, The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after being found by US soldiers hiding in a cellar.

My mom loved Angel Food Cake or Pineapple Upside Down Cake baked in a cast-iron skillet.
Either would bring comfort, today.

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