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Nkaigle
September 15, 2011

Home! 1944

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Journaling on the opposite page reads:

We had a soft covering of snow the day our brother Frank came home from overseas. My older sisters Irene and Betty came to welcome him home. Irene brought Louis, Ma's first grandchild and our first nephew in the family!
It was a long and worrisome 2 years that Frank was in the Pacific with the Marines. Now he was home - safe and sound - home for Christmas!!!
It would be a joyous Christmas Eve Wigilia (vigil)! Ma would set the table, covering it first with a layer of straw (symbolic of the manger in Bethlehem), then with a fine linen cloth. We would lay out the oplatek and the special foods! There would be 6 different kinds of pierogis. Ma and I would spend two whole days making them. This was a big job, and my younger sister Pauline always skipped out, it was so much work!
An empty place was set for our brother Peter, still in Alaska with the Coast Guard. But older brothers Stanley and Joe would come, and older sister Gert too, along with Irene and Betty. We would all be together once again to break and share the blessed oplatek - the Christmas wafer. Starting with the oldest family member, Ma, she would break a piece of the wafer and offer blessings to the next oldest member. Down the line we would go, wishing peace and joy and love to each other, always ending with many tears in our eyes.

Taken from journaling written by my Mom many years ago.


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