Saturday, September 11, 2010

God bless America.....

This is a repost of a scrapbook page I did a while back.  This is my dad; he served in WWII (Army) and took part of the Battle of Normandy.  He was overseas (as a very young man) for almost 5 yrs.  He told my brother once that when he saw the Statue of Liberty he fell to his knees on the ship's deck and cried because he didn't think he would ever see 'home' again.  
This is one of my favorite pages I have done, ever!!!!!  I only wished that I had his medals/awards, but we had a house fire in 1969 and we lost everything.  But I recently found out that you can order repilcas ....not quite the same but close enough.

Until later, AMERICANS......Gotta split......TFL!!!!!

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7 comments:

  1. I really like how you created this LO! so vintage!!
    thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a sweet comment!
    Gaby

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  2. OUTSTANDING!!!!!! what a great LO and such an honor to see the picture you have shared of your father thank you very much

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  3. what a fabulous tribute! you are soooooooo good!

    hugs :)

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  4. This is one gorgeous layout! Thank you for sharing!
    ~Dorcas
    http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com/

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  5. beautiful layout! We really need talented crafters like yourself to join in the fun challenges over at Papercraft Star. If you haven't heard about it already (or already entered before), the challenges are posted way in advance to give you plenty of time to enter and their are lots of great giveaways too! Hope to see you there! http://www.papercraftstar.blogspot.com.

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  6. What an amazing way to preserve the memories!!! What a beautiful layout!!!

    Big HUgs
    Cristi

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Thanks to you all for your comments, good, bad or indifferent.... I appreciate them all so much!!!