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They left kitchens and domestic work behind and stepped into factories that would help power victory.

#AmericanHistory #WWII

Many were wives, widows, students, and divorcees — drawn by purpose and wages often 40% higher than traditional jobs.

#WomensHistory #LaborHistory

Women came from every corner of the country, working long weeks to keep the assembly lines moving day and night.

#WWII #HomeFront

During WWII, America asked women to do what many said they couldn’t.

If she could sew, she could rivet.
If she could bake, she could build.

They stepped forward so the men they loved could come home sooner — and in doing so, helped change history.

#WWII #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

We remember the ones who served.
We honor the ones who endured.
And we protect the truth, and protect one another.

#Veterans #LibraryLife #Remember

“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1943) wasn’t just a holiday song — it was a wartime prayer.

It carried the ache of soldiers overseas and families waiting by the window ❤️

And then that final line lands like a whisper:

“if only in my dreams.”

A Christmas memory
🎄🕯️🇺🇸

#Family #Home #Christmas

That’s why the song still hits so hard — it wasn’t nostalgia. It was hope holding a family together.

There is a special place in heaven for those who gave their lives in WWII — a place that honors every race, every nation, and every faith — 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿.

#WWII #LibraryLife #Remembrance

That hope—“maybe he’ll be home for Christmas”—lived in letters, radios, and kitchen conversations. It shaped an entire generation’s idea of gratitude.

When I think about WWII, I always come back to one phrase: Home for Christmas. For so many families, it was a prayer more than a plan

“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1943) wasn’t just a holiday song — it was a wartime prayer.

It carried the ache of soldiers overseas and families waiting by the window ❤️

And then that final line lands like a whisper:

“if only in my dreams.”

A Christmas memory
🎄🕯️🇺🇸

#Family #Home #Christmas

Which does more damage:
𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬… 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬? 🇺🇸

A country doesn’t lose the future all at once.
It loses it one “we’ll deal with that later” at a time.

History doesn’t collapse in a day.
It erodes through delay.

What are we postponing right now that we shouldn’t be? 🇺🇸

#History #Technology #Environment

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

“Thank you for sharing this. They weren’t statistics — they were people. That perspective changes how you see the present.”

“History lesson: when a nation steps back, someone else steps forward. That’s true in war, and it’s true in technology.”

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Torkil — “thank you for sharing this.
I really appreciate it.”

World War II still feels close when you talk with people who lived through it — or grew up in its shadow.

Freedom isn’t inherited automatically.
It’s maintained — by truth, sacrifice, and civic trust.

#WorldWarII #History #Ukraine

World War II still feels close when you listen to those who lived through it — or grew up in its shadow.

Freedom isn’t inherited automatically.
It’s maintained.
#WorldWarII #History

Sixty million lives.
Entire cities erased.
Families reshaped for generations.

There’s no honest way to cover World War II in a few posts — so I won’t.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll keep exploring the courage, sacrifice, and moral lessons it demands.

Compiled edition: May 1.

#WorldWarII

It ended in 1945 — but the aftermath lasted decades: shattered cities, traumatized families, and a world reorganized into the Cold War.

It wasn’t only armies. Civilians were targeted and trapped — bombings, starvation, forced labor, mass displacement, and genocide. The Holocaust remains the clearest symbol of that moral collapse.

The war turned on key moments: Britain holding on, the Soviet Union absorbing staggering losses, the U.S. entering after Pearl Harbor, and the tide shifting at places like Stalingrad and Midway.

It began with expansion and invasion: Nazi Germany pushed across Europe, Fascist Italy sought empire, and Imperial Japan expanded across Asia and the Pacific. Borders were redrawn by force.

World War II wasn’t one battlefield. It was a global chain reaction — Europe, North Africa, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and Asia — pulling nation after nation into a fight for survival.

𝗔𝗻 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟲𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗜.

Not statistics.

People.

When you talk to someone who lived through it — or grew up in its shadow — you understand something:

They didn’t assume freedom would last.

They knew it had to be protected.

That mindset matters.

#WorldWarII

The quiet heroes matter too: factory workers, nurses, parents holding it together, kids growing up fast.

Civic trust isn’t a slogan. It’s something you earn and then protect—generation after generation.

One thing I never forget: people didn’t “agree on everything”—they agreed on protecting the country and each other.