Veterans’ Day 2021

Hi All. A while back (2004) I wrote an essay after I visited some European battlegrounds with a friend. With some light editing, here it is now:...

St. Agnan – An essay from early in my research

I somehow ended up with a random, scattered collection of a few of H W Anderson’s snapshots, from his trips and tours from the end of his days. A handful of places and people significant to him, but, in his own manner, rarely labeled. Two of them drove me crazy....

Memorial Day, 2021

Having returned to the U.S. from France with the 28th Division (Pennsylvania National Guard) earlier in May 1919, six months after the armistice, Anderson spent Memorial Day (Friday, May 30) preparing to be mustered from federal service the next day, back to civilian...