<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;">I'm not sure I sent this.<br><br><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">D-Day
Vigil </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This piece captures a moment in history. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">It is a story of her Grandmother anxiously
trying to maintain the mundane<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">chores of
life,</font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">while her future husband is fighting for her
country and life.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">As usual it captures the mood of the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">You have a talent for that. Very nice. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">On
tenterhooks in her parents’ home</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I’m not familiar with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">the term tenter hooks. What does it mean?</font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">In
the war-ravaged English Midlands, </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">she
sat and watched as the sky darkened </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">with
fog and clusters of aircraft,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">great
birds of prey now bent on</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">an
unknown mission of salvation,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Formed
a relentless migration toward the coast.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"> </font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3">It is a little confusing here what coast
and what plaines. But I take it is the invasion of Normandy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">because of the title.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Her boy friend
is involved , so I take it he has taken off for Europpe.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span></u></b></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">With
restless energy, she stirred a pot of lentil soup,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Switched
on the wireless, and put the kettle on the hob.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sensing
her American paratrooper beau </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">was
involved in this frenzy, the young woman </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">who
would become my mother prayed silently</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">amidst
droning planes and simmering soup.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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-Sally Rosenthal- </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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