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December 27, 2025December 26, 2025joynealkidney

Christmas in Rome, 1944–Lt. Dan Wilson

October 9, 2025October 16, 2025joynealkidney

Patricia Furstenberg’s moving comments about Leora’s Letters

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025joynealkidney

“Daughtered Out”

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024joynealkidney

Jet Perfume

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024joynealkidney

Classroom Questions and Activities: Leora’s Letters – with thanks to Elaine Briggs

October 15, 2024October 13, 2024joynealkidney

Questions to Ponder: Leora’s Letters

August 1, 2024August 7, 2024joynealkidney

Dillon’s War, a new WWII book by Dennis Peterson

June 4, 2024June 6, 2024joynealkidney

My Birth is on Page 223

March 12, 2024March 12, 2024joynealkidney

Review of “What Leora Never Knew” in “Lightning Strikes!” publication of the P-38 National Association

December 8, 2023November 7, 2025joynealkidney

The P-38 Pilots’ Stone Hut in Italy (37th FS, 14th FG, 15th AF) – Winter 1944

November 3, 2023November 3, 2023joynealkidney

The First Review on Amazon for “What Leora Never Knew”

October 27, 2023June 10, 2024joynealkidney

Generosity: Marcus Brotherton, New York Times bestselling author

August 3, 2023August 2, 2023joynealkidney

Review of “Leora’s Letters” by Sally Cronin of Smorgasbord Blog Magazine

June 14, 2023June 14, 2023joynealkidney

Our Stars and Stripes: A Symbol of Hope and Service

June 5, 2023August 26, 2023joynealkidney

Shot Down–the Book and the Audiobook

April 18, 2023April 20, 2023joynealkidney

Pvt. D.S. Wilson, U.S. Army, Squadron D, Iowa State Teacher’s College – 1943

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023joynealkidney

The Early Life of a Remarkable Woman! Review of Leora’s Early Years

February 15, 2023February 18, 2026joynealkidney

“She Published Her First Book at Age 75!” – interview with Dennis Peterson

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023joynealkidney

Searching for the Missing, Decades Later–Two Books by Kenneth Breaux

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023joynealkidney

Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

September 23, 2022September 27, 2025joynealkidney

Gold Star Mothers Day

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Heartbreak House, the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot

January 27, 2022July 13, 2022joynealkidney

“Letters From Uncle Dave,” a Engrossing Book by Phil Rosenkrantz

January 17, 2022April 14, 2024joynealkidney

Leora Wilson’s Date Bread Recipe – 1955

September 8, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Kansas City Quartermaster Depot

September 3, 2021October 21, 2021joynealkidney

Five Surprising Things about Author Steve Snyder

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021joynealkidney

Military Service Members Related to Leora Wilson

June 14, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Flag Day

March 24, 2021March 25, 2021joynealkidney

Women’s History Month: Doris (Wilson) Neal, Written by her Grandson

February 22, 2021May 8, 2021joynealkidney

Iowa Native Hubert Caloud, Superintendent of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France

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