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42 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | MARCH 2021 Our in-person meetings remain on hold due to COVID restrictions, but we continue to read… The Book Club selection for March is rescheduled from January, and is This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. Here is a brief description of the book from Amazon.com: "In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, Odie O'Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole." Our meetings are normally held on the second Tuesday of each month at 9:30 am in the RCN room #3, and someone volunteers to lead the discussion about the book we have chosen for the month. We are in the process of finalizing our reading list for 2021. If you have any titles you'd like to recommend, please email me at the address below. For more information about the Four Seasons Book Club or to get on our mailing list, please contact me at michelesrosen@gmail.com. ~ Micki Rosen Book Club Veterans Walk Group 27 March 1974 — For our generation, the war was finally over. With the North Vietnamese Army bearing down on Da Nang Air Base, Air America, World Airways, and other air services were flying out refugees as fast as they can. On this date, the U.S. Navy begins a four-day evacuation that saves some 30,000 South Vietnamese from the communist invasion. The refugees, including many panicked South Vietnamese soldiers, are so desperate that they cling to the landing gear and air stairs as the planes take off. ~ Len Tavernetti

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