Book Set 4 - Tried and True

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Real People who Triumphed over Adversity

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Real People who Triumphed over Adversity

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A Wonderful Life

Don Bein served in WWII and was an eyewitness to Bergen-Belsen. He is still following Eisenhower's orders to tell people what he saw.

A Rosie Named Clara

Rosie the Riveter Clara quit school and went to work at the Brigg's Manufacturing Plant. She worked on B-29's until after the war. "Know you have something to offer."

I Would Do It Again

Frances Mauro Masters is an original Rosie the Riveter from Michigan during WWII. She worked on the B-24 Liberator bombers." Hard work and common sense make for a good life."

Lizzie's Great Invention

If you’ve ever played Monopoly, you may not know that the original inventor was an amazing young woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie-Phillips who grew up in Macomb, Illinois.

Freddie and the Ant

When Fred Foster heard that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, like many of his friends and family he decided to join the Army. His training eventually brought him into Germany and the Battle of the Bulge. Read this story to learn how Fred gained inspiration from a tiny ant in the midst of the horrors of WWII.

WE DID IT!

Rosie Beulah Evans McAlister worked at the Hudson motor Car Company in Detroit Michigan. She worked on the Hellcat aircraft. "I am a Rosie"

Riva's Reality

Riva Yulitskiy was born in 1933 in Romania, the same year Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1940, the Nazis invaded Romania and began bombing the country. Riva’s family would hide in a cellar.

Great Uncle Lee's Korean War History

Whatever Louis Lee Myers did he did well. Brigadeir General Myers earned the respect of those around him.

A German Reborn

Ernst’s story teaches the importance of tolerance and patriotism.

Jewish Jammer

Read about Lt. Steve Blinn, a Navy pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm, and the additional dangers that he faced because of the fact that he is Jewish. Lt. Steve Blinn was motivated to serve in the military by his family’s stories about ancestors who fled the Holocaust (some perished) and also about the persecution because of Russian Pogroms.