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A Salute to Scituate's World War II Veterans

Posted on: May 25, 2018 - 10:43am
The book cover of "A Salute to Scituate's World War II Veterans"
The book cover of "A Salute to Scituate's World War II Veterans"

There are copies of "A Salute to Scituate's World War II Veterans" available for $15, at the Town Archives office.

Please come to pick one up at the office located at the lower level of the Town Hall only on Wednesdays from 10:30 am to 2pm. 

If you cannot make it at that time, call (781) 545-8865  or email archives@scituatema.gov and make other arrangements.   

What is this book?  

Shortly after WW II started, Scituate townspeople sent money orders enclosed in Christmas cards to members of the community serving in the Armed Forces.  In 1996, the discovery of thank you letters sent back from those veterans were found stashed away in a cardboard box at the Scituate Town Hall.  Subsequently a project was formed, surviving veterans or families were contacted and shared memories, bios, and photographs were collected into book form.  These veterans, in their letters, expressed hope, patriotism, loneliness, gratitude and especially pride in their hometown. This book tries to convey these emotions to the reader and do justice to those who sacrificed so much.