[ALadysMom]

For many complicated reasons, my family never really spoke about one of my uncles who had died in the war. Recently, I started searching online about him. The Internet is much-maligned but the facts I found made me have a different perspective! He was killed in a Japanese bombing raid in the Aleutian Islands (off of Alaska) in WWII while serving as a naval airplane metal smith. I found many wonderful details about him, his life, his death & his burial plot online. There are even recorded interviews of fellow service survivors on the National Archives Website! I am so proud
of him and I want to know more. I had never known where the Aleutian Islands are nor that there was activity there during WWII.

Family history is something that not everyone enjoys but to those of us who are interested it is fascinating. I’d much rather read about events I have a connection to than while away my time on fiction.

BTW Did you know that journaling, particularly recording gratitude, is very therapeutic? So even if your journals ONLY make you happier and they are never appreciated by anyone else....YOUR happiness is worth it.