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SALLY JAMESON BOND
Sally's Soliloquies
Welcome to Sally’s Soliloquies!
Each week, as I share snippets of the research that helped me develop my story, you will learn about the often-turbulent times of World War II. When My Mother’s Friend is finally published, and you open your copy to page one, you’ll be up to speed on the time and place of my story and so much more.
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– Sally
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Sally Jameson Bond
Nov 2, 20225 min read
Captain William B. Overstreet, Jr., USAAF
My husband Joe and I were invited to a Halloween party last Saturday night. Except for my nephew’s Halloween-themed wedding reception in...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Oct 5, 20222 min read
My Mother’s Friend by Sally Jameson Bond
When I launched my author web page last year, my wonderful web designer, Michelle Gill, happened to mention “you know you’ll be blogging,...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Aug 31, 20226 min read
Musicals! Musicals! Musicals!
I love musical theater. When I was in ninth grade (in the spring of 1967), I got to play (trombone) in the pit orchestra for Ottumwa...
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Sally Jameson Bond
May 11, 20227 min read
Victory in Europe—Part Two
V-E Day was certainly celebrated in the United States, but perhaps “commemorated” is more appropriate in some respects. New York City...
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Sally Jameson Bond
May 4, 20229 min read
Victory in Europe—Part One
Try to imagine, if you will, what it must have been like in your hometown on V-E Day—May 8, 1945—the day the Allies accepted Germany’s...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Apr 20, 20226 min read
Ernie Pyle—The GI’s Favorite Reporter
It has been almost seventy-seven years since World War II ended in Europe. Back then, information about the war came to Americans via...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Feb 23, 20227 min read
D W J—My Dad—Part One
One hundred years ago today—I don’t know the hour—the cries of a newborn baby boy pierced the air. It was a momentous day as Carl and...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jan 5, 20225 min read
Nuremberg: Steeped in History
My husband Joe and I have traveled through Germany twice (three times if you count our 1986 overnight train journey from The Netherlands...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Nov 24, 20214 min read
11-23-1944
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, and I’m sure many bloggers will write about this wonderful holiday this week. There’s a lot to...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Oct 20, 20217 min read
Who remembers Wendell Willkie?
The name rings a bell, right? A few of you might know a lot about him, others might know a little or nothing at all. Truth be told, I had...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Oct 13, 20215 min read
The USO Brought (Brings) Hope
The United Service Organizations The USO strengthens America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Oct 6, 20213 min read
Riveting Rosies
Just before the United States entered World War II at the end of 1941, less than 20% of women were employed outside the home, and most of...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Sep 22, 20214 min read
Promoting My Novel
Unless I get hit by a bus on the way to campus today, at the moment this blog is published (12:06 p.m. EDT), I will be speaking to the...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jul 21, 20213 min read
SPAM-in-a-can
Raise your hands—who has eaten SPAM? Uh-huh—are you sure?—how ‘bout that—more than I expected. It had been decades since I tried it the...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jul 14, 20216 min read
They weren’t all Nazis
You don’t often see letters to the editors of newspapers on the front page, but I recently found one such letter on the front page of the...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jul 7, 20214 min read
Saint-Lô
I look in all sorts of places for blog ideas. So far (this is number eighteen), most of my ideas have come from folders in file drawers...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jun 30, 20214 min read
Styes In My Eyes and the Scourge of Polio
I’m just getting over a stye. It’s the third one I’ve had since the end of March when the first one made its unwelcome appearance. Three...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jun 16, 20215 min read
Nimitz: The Man and the Freeway
Everyone knows the name Dwight David Eisenhower, at least I hope they do. Selected by President Franklin Roosevelt as the Supreme Allied...
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Sally Jameson Bond
Jun 9, 20213 min read
The National D-Day Memorial
This past Sunday marked the 77th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe at Normandy, France during World War II....
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Sally Jameson Bond
May 26, 20214 min read
The Not-So-Great Escapes
One of my favorite World War II movies is The Great Escape—Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, David McCallum (remember him...
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