Returning Home at Easter
The day was sunny and warm Easter 1944, and my dearest sister was coming home from School in the Odenwald
Ilona Cole, Story 106
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Marcie Sims is a teacher, author, and editor. She teaches literature/film, composition, and creative writing courses at Green River College in Auburn, WA. She lives on Vashon Island, just a short ferry ride away from Seattle, Washington. She writes fiction (short stories and novels), poetry, composition textbooks and has written one historic overview of Capitol Hill Pages as a former U.S. Senate page herself. View more posts
Though this beautiful and tragic story by Ilona mentions an Easter Homecoming, I think the content is good for our upcoming Thanksgiving holiday; to remind us to cherish our lives and our loved ones, and to try to avoid hate and war at all costs since the losses are far too great. Thank you again, Ilona, for your stories from your life and showing us a bit more about both the terror and the beauty, the love and joy as well as the heartbreak and sadness, that exists in our world. Marcie
Ilona skillfully weaves her memories of the joyful times during her teenage years, with the horrors of war and lost lives. Thank you, Ilona, for sharing this story with us.
One more memory of hope met by devastation. How to carry these two extremes in a way that doesn’t destroy, but inspires? Ilona has found a way to do this in her writing. During this season of Thanksgiving, I can only say a heartfelt “Thank you” for these gifts you so generously offer to us and others. Love.