Send a Care Package for Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day

Send a Care Package for Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day
Jesse Bluma at Pointe Viven. All rights reserved.

Joe Brown, a World War II veteran, recorded his experience as a prisoner of war in We Stole to Live. The true story tells of his POW days with his fellow POWs.  Among his friends in the camp was my great-uncle, Larry Bluma.

Playing Mr. Mouth game with Uncle Larry, sister, and cousin

"January 31, 2004-I awakened a while ago thinking about the time, in the early morning of June 4, 1942, an American Navy PBY was shot down by Japanese fighter planes near the Aleutian Islands, and soon three of the nine-man crew aboard were the only survivors, clinging to an inflated two-man raft floating on the turbulent, frigid waters of the Bering Sea, under abominable weather conditions, hundreds of miles from any sort of land. Even a glimmer of hope for survival would have been considered by most as a forlorn exercise of fantasy."

If you would like to purchase the book pictured above, look on Amazon or check with your local bookstore.  

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