i wish i could get a closer look at all this beautiful detail!! i LOVEEEEE this jami! the journaling is powerful! the vellum is beautiful. and those pics? priceless!
oh Jamie - this is truly a wonderful layout. I love it - every little detail is so thought out. I am sorry you never got to meet your grandfathers but you can certainly be proud of them and I am sure they would be honoured by your tribute!
Oh, this is just so touching! I'm getting teary-eyed from reading it. So sorry you never knew these American HEROES. GOD BLESS THEM and YOUR FAMILY for their sacrifice. I think it's wonderful that you honored them in such a lovely way.
Faves all the way! Great tribute Wonderful tribute to your Grandfathers, and, in a way to all vets, due to the song. Much thought went into this. I did something similar in digital. It took me more time to do than any lo I've ever done, trying to get the declaration of the flag. Well done, love how you put the song lyrics paper in too. faves!
Did this for the July Lyric Challenge. I've actually been wanting to scrap about my grandfathers for years and just never got around to doing it until now. When I read July's Lyric Challenge theme the idea just clicked in my brain & I knew exactly what I wanted to create. TFL everyone! : ]
Lyrics are from Toby Keith's American Soldier. I wrote out the words onto a sheet of colored vellum and layed it over top a piece of paper mesh, which I layed over top a vellum American Flag that I centered over both pages of the LO. [Hope that didn't sound too confusing, lol!] The sheet music that I used as pp on pg. 2 I actually found @ an Antique store when I was living in SC. It's an original copy of The Army Air Corps Song. You can still see the Copyright date at the bottom of the page. I think I picked it up for like $1.99.
Up until last night I didn't have any pics for this page but my mom came over after work today and brought me a few shots of my paternal grandfather, my dad's Dad, that he had sent my grandmother[who wasn't his wife yet], while he was in the Marines. I believe they were married after the War.
There is hidden journaling under the photo at the top of the 1st pg. which reads: I don't know much about my blood grandfathers, since both of them passed away before my parents were married, but I do know this-they both served in th U.S. Military. My Paternal Grandfather, John William Kananen, was a Marine. He was stationed at Pearl Harbour when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. He survived the attack which claimed the lives of more than 2300 and injured 1178, though most of his friends did not. I can only imagine what it was like for him to live through such an experience and how it must have affected him the rest of his life. After the attack he went on to aid his fellow Marines in the Battles of Guadalcanal and later, Iwo Jima.
The journaling on pg. 2 reads: My Maternal Grandfather was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps-the predecessor of today's U.S. Air Force. He enlisted shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese and attended Flight School in TX. After the war he was sent to Japan & was stationed there during the occupation. He was a Test Pilot until one of his test flights went wrong and his plane crashed. He was killed instantly & my grandmother(who was pregnant w/my mom @ the time & already had 3 children), became a widow.
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