Comments on: Advent: The Lost Christmas http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/ Where our past is never very long ago Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36416 Carol Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:24:07 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36416 My dad always told the story that he was still 29 because his 30th birthday never happened.

]]> By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36400 Mark B. Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:15:39 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36400 That’s nothing. I left Honolulu in mid-summer and landed the next day in Tokyo in late-autumn. : )

]]> By: Paul http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36394 Paul Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:24:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36394 This story reminded me of the birthday of one of my daughters. We happened to be traveling from Taiwan to the US on her birthday, so she had a 37-hour birthday!

]]> By: Mina http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36381 Mina Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:07:57 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36381 Ok that answers my first question. Now I want to know, was “Jimmy” a popular exclamation for boys in 1946? And what about the name “Kiki?”

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36369 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:50 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36369 Methinks that families (including the boys’ mother, although she isn’t mentioned — it’s a Charlie Brown universe!) were going to join their Navy husbands/fathers at their duty stations on Guam. This soon after the war there would have been no commercial ships traveling there, only those under military control. But even though it’s a Navy ship, it isn’t a troopship, and there would have had to have been stewards and others to take care of the passengers.

Best I can do.

]]> By: kew http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/15/advent-the-lost-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-36361 kew Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9572#comment-36361 Why was the Navy transporting children across the Pacific, and why did they have Filipino stewards?

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