September 21 Meeting at WMP hosted by Sharon

Strains of "Good Night, Irene" filled our War Memorial Park picnic pavilion as the GTG book club ended our discussion of Luis Alberto Urrea's book by the same name. The fiction book was based on the author's mother's service during WWII with the "Donut Dollies", a Red Cross unit that provided a taste of home for the soldiers. Most of us hadn't heard of women being on the front lines where they faced many of the same dangers endured by the fighting men and suffered much of the same emotional and physical aftermath. It was an interesting read. We closed with the singing of some old songs led by our excellent club musician Pat Fogle, firing up her snazzy accordion. Sorry Louisa, Alice, Carol, Edna and Rennie couldn't be with us.

Sharon