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Fall 2021 – Veterans Day Display

For Veterans Day this year the library has a display of fiction books that tell the American soldier’s experience at war. They  are mostly classics and represent various engagements, The Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, The Afghan War. Two were written by alumni, The Pearl of Kuwait ,Thomas Paine class of 1980 and  The Ulysses Flight : a WWII aviation adventure novel of aerial dogfights and love  by  Paul Wankowicz, class of 1943. Also shown is the altar to the Portsmouth Abbey Alumni who died in the Service of their country. (RS)