Showing posts with label Semaphore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Semaphore. Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Service: May 30, 9.30AM. National Cemetery, 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, Houston.

“Z” – Signalman Lewis aboard USS Hancock. December 20, 1944, supporting operations at Luzon, Mindoro, Salvador Island, Masinloc, San Fernando, Cabanatuan and Manila Bay, Philippine Islands. HistoryLink101.com and Naval Slide Collection at the National Archives.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

B Verse

B is for banner.
B is for bell.
B is for Baron
Whose writing is swell.

Doggerel, you know, is venial – a sin that I do practice from time to time. I didn’t really resist when I stumbled across a set of poems from furthest New Jersey. Marci McGowan displays 25 letter poems, for her First Grade Class website at HW Mountz Elementary School in Spring Lake, NJ – “right on the Atlantic Ocean!” Her B poem reads:

B is for box.

B is for bell.
B is for bucket
In my well.

Much better. And I’m being sentimental: My own favorite early-days school teacher was Frances McGowen. The school was E Rivers Elementary in Atlanta, still there. My McGowen was a long time ago…I’ll keep why I remember her name so well to myself. Despite the coincidence, thanks to both of you.