Norma Hamilton (Go Navy!) joins Nick & Darlene Mott (Go Marines!) of Name Badge fame,
while Carla Sue Holcomb (Go Oklahoma!) holds up the AWON flag

Nick's Dad, PFC Garner W. Mott would be celebrating a birthday
on November 8th, as we return from the conference.

 

Betty Volkan's Father, PVT Jorma Palonen, KIA 21 Nov. '44
had carefully spelled his name on his canteen. Betty recovered the canteen
unexpectedly as a gift from its finder on a recent trip to the area near Livergnano, Italy.

 

The Name PALONEN is spelled just above the rim in a series of
indentations that could have been made with the point of a bullet.

 

David Stanek's cross. A gift to him made from schrapnel from
the field where his Dad fell, near Linnich, Germany, in memory
of PFC Aloysius Anthony Stanek, KIA 29 Nov.'44.

 

Betty's canteen and David's shrapnel cross are good examples of what
Vamik Volkan calls "Linking Objects."

 

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