Picturepocket's Blog

Category: WWII

  • Conference Me In 

    Conference Me In 

    I just went to my first writing conference yesterday. After a year of sitting quietly at home trying to figure things out by myself, it was like drinking from a fire hose of information. I attended two talks from a keynote speaker, three breakout sessions and had about twenty chats with random authors. I am…

  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…

  • Fascism’s Fail

    Much is made of Hitler’s bad treatment of the Jews, but it was not his undoing. Freeing the concentration camps was actually a surprise for many of the Allied forces as many did not know the extent of his killing enterprise. Hitler’s need for control and power was insatiable and ultimately his and his country’s…

  • The Tale of Two Walls

    The purpose is not for contemplative reflection for sins of times past, but urgency for a current community crisis. “Never again” is right now.