by Mari K Eder | Dec 7, 2023 | Newsletters
A dark holiday season arrived early in New York City that year. It was December 1941, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had just occurred three weeks earlier. Everyone was on edge. Even Mae Foley, a New York Policewoman and mother of two grown... 
by Mari K Eder | Jul 1, 2021 | Newsletters
“Coming in on a wing and a prayer…” A phrase inspired by World War II B-17 pilot Hugh Ashcraft. When returning to England from a bombing run over Germany, Ashcraft told his crew, “Those who want to, please pray.” Newspapers called them the crew that “prayed” their...