Gunner recalls 26 bombing missions with bird’s-eye view of war By Pat van den Beemt, pvdb@comcast.net, The Baltimore Sun May 30, 2012 Larry Hilte had a date with destiny on Valentine’s Day, 1945. Then just 19 years of age, the Marylander flew his first combat mission onboard a B-24 Liberator bomber. He and a crew…
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On Christmas Day of the year 2000, we flew to Seoul, South Korea, to adopt a 5-month-old baby. These pages chronicle his first 4 years in stories and pictures. Aidan is now a teenager in high school! You can see more recent pictures in his online photo album.
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We adopted our oldest son, Aidan, from South Korea when he was 5 months old. When he was about 7 years old and we thought about adopting again, we felt someone close to his age would be a better fit than a baby. Working once again with the Adoption Service Information Agency (ASIA; now part…
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A portal to Di Giorgio–related information and resources on this site.
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The Family section contains pages on our nuclear family and a searchable database of relatives.
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Welcome to my home page! There are lots of pictures and movies for you to see here, and you can find more recent pictures in my online photo album.
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Henry Gran (Elliot’s great-great-grandfather) immigrated to the United States in 1869 because he hated Sweden. The surname Gran means a spruce tree in Swedish, probably related to the German grün and English green (as in an evergreen tree). Sometime after 1880, Henry changed it to Grant in an effort to excise any vestigial Swedishness.
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