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Month: May 2020

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020joynealkidney

Memorial Day Dinner at the Dexter Presbyterian Church

May 27, 2020February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient

May 25, 2020September 29, 2020joynealkidney

Artist Ray Sorensen’s Freedom Rocks: Iowa Memorial Day Treasures

May 22, 2020May 15, 2021joynealkidney

The Poppies of Flanders Fields–Guest Post by Denzil Walton (from Belgium)

May 19, 2020May 19, 2021joynealkidney

The USS Yorktown (CV-5) Located Three Miles Deep

May 18, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Iowa

May 15, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

Clabe and Leora: Spring 1945

May 13, 2020September 18, 2020joynealkidney

Check Six: A Thunderbolt Pilot’s War Across the Pacific

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020joynealkidney

National Defense Student Loan

May 9, 2020May 4, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Crocheted Roses

May 8, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

On VE-Day, Two Sons Missing in Action

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020joynealkidney

A Little News for the Month

May 4, 2020September 9, 2020joynealkidney

Motherline

May 1, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

A May Day Tragedy in 1892

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