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Never Forget: Artist Paul Dillon’s Passion to Preserve POW-MIA Stories
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Never Forget: Artist Paul Dillon’s Passion to Preserve POW-MIA Stories

by Terri Barnes

For artist Paul Dillon, discovering and preserving personal wartime stories like his father’s is a passion. He fears these individual pieces of history are in danger of being forgotten, and he hopes to change that, through his artwork in N is for Never Forget: POW-MIA A to Z and his work as the president of the Jefferson Barracks POW-MIA Museum. […]

Nancy Polette: Catching Readers for 70 Years
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Nancy Polette: Catching Readers for 70 Years

by Meagan Frank

Nancy Polette’s first published poem made its mark on the pages of a children’s magazine when she was ten years old. At about that same time, a 34-year-old American named Virginia Hall was limping her way onto the Gestapo’s most wanted list as a one-legged World War II spy in France. The two women were separated by thousands of miles and two decades of living, but their stories would eventually cross paths. […]