Category: Military Family Members
Author Contributes to American Military Family Museum
Sends portion of her book, Once a Brat, Always a Brat for display
Fort Worth, TX, /PRNewswire-iReach/ —
Fort Worth Author, Marilyn Celeste Moris has recently contributed to the new American Military Famiily Museum for its display on May 6, 2014.
As we are increasingly aware, over 1000 of our WWII veterans are dying every day, leaving their grown “Military Brats” to tell their stories of being deployed overseas immediately after WWII. Ms. Morris was in that movement, at eight years of age, receiving her very own orders from The War Department.
Her recently re-released book, Once a Brat, Always a Brat, has been described as “part travelogue, part therapy session” and the second half, containing other Military Brats; stories, has been called by Dennis Campbell of BratCon Radio, as “a field manual for understanding Military Brats.”
Ms. Morris explains why this subculture claims a fondness for the term, “Brat”, as itt does not connote “an unruly child,” but is rather taken from the British Military, who stamped papers with the iniitials, “BRAT'” meaning British Regiment Attached Traveler.
She relates how the family adapted to somewhat primitive quarters, with no running water, sporadic electricity, wood-burning stoves and an icebox.
How she, and other Military Brats, adapted from an ancient Oriental culture one year to exploring castles in Bavaria in the next, is the focus of Once a Brat, Always a Brat which is available on Amazon.com and Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/Once-Brat-Always-Marilyn-Morris-ebook/dp/B00HX2VXPY/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_kin
Ms. Morris’s website with information regarding her novels and one other self-help book can be found at MarilynCelesteMorrisAuthorAndEditor.blogspot.com/
Contact:
Marilyn Morris
Phone: 817-246-2639
Circe Woessner, Executive Director
Museum of the American Military Family
(505) 504-6830
http://museumoftheamericanmilitaryfamily.org/
Overseas Brats Gathering in Albuquerque on 20 February
Brat Friend,
Got some activity to share with you about
our annual get-together of Brats in New Mexico happening on February 20!
As of today:
-22 Brats & Educators who now live in New Mexico are interested in this function.
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Here’s how will make it worth your while to come:
*Every Brat gets recognized!
*With this crowd, you get immediately accepted because we share your heritage!
*We’re going to introduce you to some wonderful Brat people — who want to meet
YOU!
*This is a day that VALIDATES your special heritage!
Join us:
Thursday, February 20 – 6 – 9:30 p.m.
Cervantes Restaurant5801 Gibson Blvd. SEAlbuquerque, NMRestaurant telephone: 505-262-2253.
*Pricing remains similar to previous years!
*Early registration deadline is February 15.
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Details are at:
http://www.overseasbrats.com/RegGetogethers.asp .
To register:
-Scroll down to: Albuquerque, NM, Wed, Feb. 20, 2014.
-Complete brief info.
-Click Add to Cart.
-Click on Check out.
-Click on Don’t Have A PayPal Account.
-Complete credit card information.
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Looking forward to uniting you with the
Brat community!
Have a terrific day!
Joe Condrill
OVERSEAS BRATS
Reasons for Thanksgiving
As the Museum of the American Family all-volunteer board sits back and reflects on the past few months, it is apparent that we have a lot to be thankful for.
Our biggest news is that the Rivera family, of Robert Rivera Construction in Santa Rosa, NM, have generously donated seven 1947 military family housing units for our museum. While they are structurally sound, they will need to be moved to our building site, gutted and rehabbed before we can occupy them. This will take a significant amount of money. We will continue our fundraising in order to rehab these little treasures. We would very much appreciate donations of money, building materials or labor as we move forward. To donate directly to our website, please click here:
The 1940’s houses were TLFs on Kirtland AFB through the late 1990s.
They are 25X30 square feet
These are the seven houses that the Rivera Construction company donated to MAMF
Speaking of moving, where are we moving to?
The City of Albuquerque has suggested a site in a park near Kirtland Air Force Base, the New Mexico Veteran’s Memorial and the VA Hospital. An architect has provided a preliminary drawing and is in the process of refining it. The various City departments are meeting to see if our museum will be a good fit in this location. We are confident that all parties will come to an agreement very soon, and we can begin to apply for permits and begin the building’s physical move to their permanent “home”.
