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LEARN HOW TO MAKE OUR TYPE LARGER

	Just a thought
	Betty Lammers

A sweetheat's wireless message
Published March 2000

Today’s technology brings the world right into our homes. Something big happens across the globe and breaking news shows the scenes to us on our TV screen. It really wasn’t all that long ago that things were different.

This past Veteran’s Day as I remembered wars gone by, I recalled a story my mother told me. During World War I, she and my dad were, as they were then called, “sweethearts.” One night my mother was awakened by a loud thunderstorm and when lightning illuminated her window shade, she saw a silhouette of a soldier falling. She instinctively worried about her Jules.

My dad was in the infantry, fighting in the trenches in France. The Germans were using gas warfare and the soldiers were equipped with gas masks. However, because my dad’s mask had become clogged with mud, he removed it and soon was overcome by phosgene gas. Quite a lot of time elapsed until they got word from a hospital in England that dad was there recuperating. They discovered that the attack that felled my father happened at the same time of my mother’s apparition.

The technology was not there - but the communication was. There just might be a sixth sense.

E-mail Betty Lammers at betty@homefrontmagazine.com.

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