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Meant for Each Other por Lou Schulist
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Meant for Each Other (edición 2021)

por Lou Schulist (Autor)

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In the '30s and '40s, and throughout the '80s, our country depended on news sources with no political spin. Without social media, people spoke face-to-face or by telephone. These were kinder times when the values of honesty and integrity were expected. WWII was soon followed by the Korean and Vietnam wars and, with Selective Service, all eligible males were subject to serving. Running concurrently with these "hot" wars was the long Cold War, which affected millions of Americans and our loyal allies. The world seemed to be teetering on the brink of a devastating nuclear war. Former enemies became our trusted allies, and our Western allies remained close. Life became less localized, and people who never expected to travel beyond a few states were suddenly seeing the world. Times were rapidly changing, and the simple life was fast fading. One thing did not change however-people still found ways to meet and fall in love. In this entertaining story spanning eighty years, two people, in countries separated by 4,000 miles of land and ocean, could never have imagined God's plan for the series of seemingly random events in their lives that would someday bring them together. They would meet, fall in love, and together overcome obstacles and share a life of growing faith and continuous adventure.… (más)
Miembro:TimBazzett
Título:Meant for Each Other
Autores:Lou Schulist (Autor)
Información:Austin Macauley (2021), 240 pages
Colecciones:Tu biblioteca
Valoración:****
Etiquetas:memoir, cold war era, berlin 1950s, muskegon, michigan, lou schulist

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Meant for Each Other por Lou Schulist

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MEANT FOR EACH OTHER, a memoir by Lou Schulist, is a touching and quick read. It was a gift from my wife's old college roomie. I didn't expect to like it, but I picked it up about 5pm yesterday after feeding the dogs, "just to look at it." I finished reading it just after midnight. Why did I get hooked on this story published by a vanity press and written by an 85 year-old man? Well, because it was just good, straightforward storytelling, I guess. And there was much here that I could relate to, even though Lou is several years older than I am. But he was raised in a big Catholic family and attended Catholic shools, taught by nuns, in Muskegon, Michigan. So there are a few things checked off with a "me too" (except for the town). And after high school he enlisted in the army. Me too. He was stationed in Germany. Me too. It was all very new to him, being a sheltered, good Catholic boy. Yeah, for sure - me too. Then things got a little different. He was in Berlin in the fifties, where he met a girl, Brigitte, and fell in love. She had a two year-old son, but he didn't mind. He goes ahead and files all the necessary paperwork (and there was a LOT) to marry the girl and adopt her son. He even extends his enlistment for six months in order to accomplish all this. Then he takes his new little family back home to Michigan, where he gets a job, a little house, a car, you know, all the stuff you yearn for when you're a young man in a hurry to grow up. He's good at what he does (mechanical drafting), works his way up at a couple different companies, becomes comfortably wealthy, etc. They have a few more kids. Brigitte becomes more fluent in English, gets her citizenship, her driver's license and is a very efficient wife and mother. Et cetera, et cetera. You see? It doesn't sound all that interesting, but it IS! Lou Schulist, in telling the story of his quite ordinary life, makes it seem extraordinary. He even feels that he kinda just blundered his way through life and it all somehow turned out okay. Me TOO, Lou! The only thing that was a bit off-putting was Schulist was a bit too free and easy with commas, often putting them where they didn't belong. And there is that ubiquitous problem with the difference between 'lay' and 'lie.' But I'm not faulting HIM for that. I blame the unscrupulous vanity press he used. An even halfway decent editor would have made the appropriate corrections. I wonder if there even was an editor. BUT, despite those gnawingly annoying little grammatical things, I enjoyed Lou Schulist's story very much. It was sincere, detailed, descriptive and from the heart. As my old Morse code sergeant-instructor used to say, "You done good," Lou. And you have given your family an absolutely priceless gift in this memoir. I will recommend this book very highly, especially to old guys of a certain age.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the Cold War memoir, SOLDIER BOY: AT PLAY IN THE ASA ( )
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In the '30s and '40s, and throughout the '80s, our country depended on news sources with no political spin. Without social media, people spoke face-to-face or by telephone. These were kinder times when the values of honesty and integrity were expected. WWII was soon followed by the Korean and Vietnam wars and, with Selective Service, all eligible males were subject to serving. Running concurrently with these "hot" wars was the long Cold War, which affected millions of Americans and our loyal allies. The world seemed to be teetering on the brink of a devastating nuclear war. Former enemies became our trusted allies, and our Western allies remained close. Life became less localized, and people who never expected to travel beyond a few states were suddenly seeing the world. Times were rapidly changing, and the simple life was fast fading. One thing did not change however-people still found ways to meet and fall in love. In this entertaining story spanning eighty years, two people, in countries separated by 4,000 miles of land and ocean, could never have imagined God's plan for the series of seemingly random events in their lives that would someday bring them together. They would meet, fall in love, and together overcome obstacles and share a life of growing faith and continuous adventure.

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