| must read book from Appalachia -- Appalachia: Spirit Triumphant by
B. L. Dotson-Lewis This book gives you the stories in original dialect of mountain soldiers beginning with the Civil War order book on www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnobles.com or Infinity Publishing 261 pages for $18.95 read first-person stories of how the veterans returned to the mountains to go to work in the southern Appalachian coalfields. next photo: 21 Veterans receiving high school diplomas - some Vets are in their 80s |
| Chapter 4 "Appalachian Warriors" - Veterans
Smoke pours from the USS West Virginia during the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 |
posted 10/04/04
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