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Glass Fragments from World War II Exhibition Opens September 14 at the NVMM
Opening Night Reception to Take Place on September 13 at 6:30 p.m.; NVMM Will Be Exhibit’s Final Stop Before Its Permanent Install at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA COLUMBUS, Ohio – The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) today announced the opening of Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II, which will run September…
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Fred talks about the Church of St. John the Baptist
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Waiting for Orders
Chaplain McDonald arrived in Liverpool, England on August 6, 1944. England had already been at war with Germany since July, 1940, and had suffered considerably in the Battle of Britain. He visited a few churches damaged by German bombing. In Coventry he noted that the Cathedral’s charred frame gauntly enclosed the blackened Coventry cross, evoking…
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St. John’s, Red Lion Square
“This church, obliterated during the Battle of Britain in August 1940, was a favorite of high church Episcopalians from the Pacific Northwest. In 1933 I had worshipped there many times, a special wrench to find this favorite ‘Fortress of the Faith’ gone.”
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St. Michael’s Cathedral
“The first target of the Luftwaffe’s Baedeker raids in the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, this ancient Cathedral was visited by a number of chaplains after their arrival from New York in 1944. Totally destroyed, the ruins became an anteroom for entrance into the new Cathedral built in the 1950s, a moving…