Subject: The Diary was fascinating...
What struck me is how contemporary she sounds. It really makes
history come alive. thanks for htmling it, scanning her photos and putting
it up on the web.
J. L.
Subject: Diary
Very interesting
R. O.
Subject: graphics
The graphics are awesome! That's all I have to say.
Thanks,
F. J.
Subject: photos
I found your photos while searching for nice scenes for my home page,
and these are the best on the net. Am i correct to assume i should
not use them? Even so, want to let you know we enjoyed viewing them.
keep up the great work, and many thanks for being there. Sincerely,
The J's
Subject: the diary
This was a very interesting way to learn more about the Boming of Pearl
Harbor. Thank you for sharing this. I have a few people that
will be interested in reading this. I will pass this on to them!!
Thanks.
T
Subject: Nice Photos
It's nice to have something clean and beautiful to look at on the internet.
Thank you.
J.L.D.
Subject: hello there...
i don't know who you are, and you don't know who i am, but i recently
visited your website and i must declare that your page is probably one
of the neatest that i have ever had the pleasure to visit...the artwork
is simply amazing! keep up the excellent work!!!!
thanks for a treat...maybe some time you could specially design one
of those 3d/fantasy pictures for wallpaper on win95...
B. F. L
Subject: Great Site!
I bopped into your website via my search engine query for "fractals
and photo". Even though I saw no enlargements of the Mandelbrodt
set, I started to look around a bit. It is now 2 hours later.
Your site is very distracting! The photos are great & the computer
art is amazing! I do wish you had a bit more in the way of captions,
though. Like who are teh dudes chiseled into Stone Mountain?
How long has that ancient Amerindian settlement been inhabited? What
program or programs did you use to create each of your masterpieces?
Thanks again for a wonderful site!
W. A. G.
Subject: Thanks!
Your photos are out of this world, you are number one.
J. B. M.
Subject: Howdie
The pictures are good but i thought you would of had information about
desert plants.
Scout
Thank you for the beautiful pictures!!
H. E.
Subject: Diary
Very, very interesting - fascinating reading. But then again,
I have a personal interest...(read on) I think anyone would enjoy it.
My first lieutenanat grandfather was there. He was on his way
to the Philipines that very morning. He was leading a group of B-17's
to a place code-named "Plum". This was, as they all knew, the Philipines,
because if a major attack was to take place, they all assumed that it would
be the Philipines. He was due to land on Hickam Field that morning,
but wound up being chased all around the island, eventually landing dangerously
short of fuel on the par 5 of a golf course on the north shore of Oahu.
Of course, that was only the beginning, but that's another story for another
web site. One I hope to do someday :-)
P.B.
http://thedropzone.org
I have spent a pleasant time on your homepage with many information
about news, humour and fun. I love travel and your links about Alaska
and Hawaii are useful and good source of many travel information.
S.
I like your pictures. I am alway's in need of good pictures.
I really liked your Sci-Fi stuff.
Sam
Hi BZ,
I find your artwork very interesting. What software do you use
to create with?
R.B
http://www.web-animator.com
I love this diary. It really takes me back. I was 5 years
old at that time, but I remember a lot of the world we knew went to the
dogs for a time. I printed a copy for my family, is that ok?
J.E.J
I think your page is simply beautiful. I really enjoyed the wonderful
pictures. Did you take these yourself? They are breathtaking.
Thank you,
S.W.
My mother was 16 at the time Ginger's Diary was written. She
had certiain stories to tell of wartime experiences; such as being a worker
in an aircraft production facility in Cleveland during the height of the
war. While her perceptions of what was going on in the world by way
of radio and newspaper was great, Ginger's diary left me feeling as if
I witnessed this moment in history with my own eyes.
Thanks for publishing this document on the web. I found it an
exceptional raft in an ocean of flotsum (not to mention jetsum).
Thanks again......J. G.
Your photgraphs are great. Nice color. Beautiful landscapes.
Your web site is one of the best we have seen lately. Keep at it.
Best wishes...
J.S. and S. P
http://www.inergy.com/photoart
bravo....!!!
G.
I was just looking at your photos. They are really beautiful.
You have a gift. You also seem to get around a lot? :)
M
Good morning (or afternoon...or whenever you read this email)
I'm a regualr reader of the Sunspot, in the land they call "Down Under".
I always check out the local artists.
I just wanted to say that I LOVE The Snake Goddess photograph.
If I lived in Morgantown I'd love to call by and have a look at some more
of your work. However, I live 10,000 miles away.
Cheers,
K. A.
How I did enjoy your melange of words, fractals, photos, comments and
the whole show so creatively presented. To understand the core of
an idea or person, one has to examine all the facets---looking at the many
facets you have shown us, I can see at the core a vibrant spirit, an ageless
artist, a humorous loving and playful individual. Thank you so much
for sharing yourself.
The Alien Fog is one of my favorites--I too am fascinated by the unlimited
variations of altered fractals, have used a Julia set manipulation as end
papers in one of my books.
The photo album format is clean and enhances each of the photos--my
favorite being the piece of petrified wood. My father was one of
the first American educated professional foresters and one of his first
jobs back in 19?? was surveying the area that would become this National
Forest. But my very favorite is your photo of you on the back of
a dime---so many implications (psychologic) are in that photo---you being
the part of the lucre of the realm, "small change" implying individuals'
small additive part in the sum of a nation, etc.
Thanks for responding so favorably to my type of digital art.
Isn't it unbelievable the opportunities the web has opened. Altered
perceptions--- I think death is just another of those altered perceptions---symbolized
in a way by your fog picture.
A.H.
http://www.art.net/Studios/Visual/Anne/home.htm
Hi,
Fantastic writing!! It was really something. I was not
born until Jan, 1943, so I wasn't involved in it, but my uncles were.
One passed away recently at 84. He had malaria even until he died.
Thank you for your sharing of the diary. We can only pray that
that does not happen again!
Thanks again,
God bless,
D.H.
I am a 7th grade geography teacher, starting a unit on Japan.
My aim with the unit on Japan is to teach the concept of cooperation and
the idea of point of view. I will use the book The Girl with the
White Flag for the Japanese point of view, but I didn't have a good US
point of view. Your diary will be perfect as the girl is the right
age and an eye witness!
Sincerely, C.R.
You have been busy with your site since last I visited and I am very
impressed. It really looks great, and your photos, both "straight"
and "cyber" are very beautiful. You do nice work!
All best wishes, D. B.
http://www.erols.com/browndk
Wow, Betty, your web site is looking even better than when I visited
it last year to
read "Ginger's Diary".....J. N.
I enjoyed reading the diary, which I chanced upon because of its reference
to
the Army-Navy game. Where is Ginger now? I wonder what her life
has been like?
I'd like to think the family weathered the war and her father recovered...
T. E. M.
Subject: Ginger's Diary
This belongs in the Smithsonian Institution. I am very pleased
that you are keeping personal memories of important events alive for following
generations.
I thought of Ann Frank's Diary as I was reading this. I know
that the awful hatred and ultimate fate was not experienced by Ginger,
but we can tell by her words that Ginger was very much aware of what her
fate could be.
This is also wonderfully written for a 17 year old girl (I feel so
even by the superior standards of her day).
Thanks! .....D. H.
I very much enjoyed seeing the art work on your site--your graphics
and photography. Good work all around. And "Ginger's Diary"
is smashing; I read every word. All best wishes.....D. B.
The way I got to your Homepage was from a place in Virginia, I believe.
Then I saw your picture of the Big Meadow Milk Weed. I lived there
ten years and graduated from High School at Waynesboro, VA. I have
been to a few of the other places you have photographs of so I appreciated
your pictures very much. I also loved your graphics! I showed
another person at work your "Shades" and she said that it reminded her
of sunglasses even before I showed her the title of the file name.
Great Work!.....D. H.
Hello, I think ur site is cool, but it might be more helpful
to ppl if u put WWI, WWII, and other war pics for ppl to download.
ur's truly.....?. ?.
Subject: Ginger's Diary
Thanks for posting Ginger's Diary. It is an interesting and important
view of war that we usually don't get because it is about non-combatant
civilian life, rather than civilian casualties or military activity.
My mother is a few years younger than Ginger and lived on the California
Coast during the war. She was very frightened that the Japanese
would invade and especially frightened by the drills at school when they
would have to run outside and hide in slit trenches.
I think that personal web pages like this are one of the internet's
greatest assets. Of course, I would, having posted one myself.
Many traces of the Pacific war are left in Vanuatu, the subject of my site....S.
C.
http://members.shaw.ca/scombs/vanuatu.html.
Subject: the diary
I read with interest and enjoyment the diary you presented. It
was especially interesting since I lived near Ft. DeRussy at Fort Ruger
around 1953-1956 with my parents (yes, I'm an army brat and could easily
have been in the same situation in another era. Were I there then,
I would have rushed for my target shooting rifle and started firing at
the Japanese planes (a BB gun or 22!)
Thanks for sharing the material. Wish there was more.....B. A.
Subject: Touching...
Your diary posting forced me to emotional thought. I was quite
young (4), but can distinctly recall the radio announcing the Pearl Harbor
bombing.
Maybe a reprint of this diary should be mailed to all purchasers of
Japanese cars.
Regards, B. S.
Subject: The Diary
I liked it a very lot!.....C. L.
Subject: Ginger's Diary
I am fascinated with "Ginger's Diary". I have printed it to share
with my fourth graders. We mainly study Alabama history in fourth
grade, but I believe they will be very interested in a 17 year old's life
in the 1940's. I am also taking it home for my mother and husband
to read. My father was in the navy during the war and my husband
was born in 1943.
Thank you for sharing this very touching diary.....J. H.
Subject: Ginger's Diary
Thank you for putting "Ginger's Diary" on the Internet. I enjoyed
reading it. To me, information like this is the value of the Internet.
....D. B.
http://www.webcom.com/duane/welcome.html
Wow!!
I had no idea! The diary was cool!!
.....L. H.
Subject: Fotos
Very nice your photos
Greetings from rmr
Subject: Pearl Harbor Diary
I really enjoyed this--I am especially interested in early WW-II days,
and this distillation of everyday life as it was changed by the Japanese
attack is most interesting. I wish we could have more things like
this.
.....N. W.
I grew up Navy. Like the woman in the diary, I would have known
too much to ignore the world and known that too many of my friends and
father's friends would pay the price for what ever came.
I cried through much of the story. It was so personal, the thoughts
of a young woman as she tried to take the measure of a world slowly going
mad around her.
Thank you for sharing this very special set of thoughts.
.....M. M.
Subject: Kudos, et al
Just a word of praise for your wild & witty page(s). No kidding...there
I was...hyperlinking along, long past remembering what I was searching
for...and stumbled upon your site. Like a highway quickstop restop
that FINALLY has YOUR brand of munchies...
By the way, I especially enjoyed the desert southwest photos, having
lived three years in Tucson before repatriating to my native New England
boonies.
Thanks for turning up the corners.
B. E. S.
http://www,neponset.com/shermans_march
Subject: Pearl Harbor
Very interesting story. I was in the islands 1953-4 with the
264th Army Band and really liked the place, the people, the lifestyle.
My wife and I went back in l983 and my common statement was 'It wasn't
like this 30 years ago!' Sad in a way.....B. S.
I found your site through Netsurgers' Digest. I think Ginger's
Diary is very interesting.
I would like to invite you to be part of our website, Journey of a
Lifetime. You can view it at http://web3.asia1.com.sg/tnp/journey.
This website was set up by a group of us at the Singapore Press Holdings
- the leading newspaper publisher in Singapore. We hope to bring
surfers places and faces not found normally in the guidebooks. Ginger's
diary gives an interesting insight to life before and after the Pearl Harbor
bombing.
Please let me know if it is okay for us to use Ginger's story as one
of our stories for the website. Hoping to hear from you soon.
Regards,
L. L.
Subject: Pearl Harbor Web Page
I was doing my usual nightly exercise of surfing the net - and reading
the most resent Netsurfer Digest and was pleased to see this site on Pearl
Harbor - my father was in the US Navy and was at PH on the 7th of December
1941 - thus I with my brother and sisters are all sons and daughters of
PH.
All the best
.....M. B.
From Netsurfer Digest Vol 2, #39
PEARL HARBOR
Personal stories make important events seem so - well personal.
Seeing as how we've just passed the 55th anniversary of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor, we decided to look online for eyewitness accounts.
William Innanen, a soldier, describes the scene at the naval base in the
wake of the attack. Ginger, a 17-year old high school student living
in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack, gives another point of view.
Her concern for friends and family killed or missing is vivid and touching.
http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/
Subject: Pearl Harbor Day
What about 'Clark Field Day' in the Philippines, only a few hours after
Pearl, we lost all of our bombers and almost all of our P-40s.
I guess Pearl Harbor was the first place they struck, but don't forget
BATAAN.
....L. T. (Survivor of the Bataan Death March)
Subject: Pearl Harbor Memories
Was very pleased to share your memories about life in Hawaii at the
time of the Japanese attack. I was 10 years old at that time.
I remember attending a Sunday movie in New Orleans and wandering to the
rear of the theater where I found people milling about the lobby talking
about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I was wondering how the
Japs got all the way to Mississippi where Pearl River is to be found.
When I got home, I found out later, of course, it was Pearl Harbor, about
which I had never heard.
My father got out the atlas and when we compared the size of Japan
to the United States we concluded that the war would end in a couple of
weeks since we were obviously so much bigger than they. My brother
had joned the navy earlier in 1941, and was in the Pacific so we worried
about his well being. We later learned his destroyer sailed into
Pearl two days after the attack. These are among a flood of wonderful
memories that your Pearl Harbor diary brought to mind. I would be
interested (as well as others would, I'm sure) in what happened to the
family during the rest of the war.
.....J. M.
Subject: diary
Thank you for sharing Ginger's Diary. I'm very much interested
in WWII in general and Pearl Harbor specifically.
Congratulations on a well designed web page. I am a K-12 media
specialist.
.....J. N.
