Today “Mollie’s War” is featured on the “Passing of a Military Mom/Author” section on the website of the National Museum of American Jewish Military History. Although we were not able to attend the Family Stories, Daughters, Mothers and Bubbes event in Washington DC in May 2011, Mary Westley from the Museum read some of my mother’s letters.
http://www.nmajmh.org

Please read my interview in A Place for Writers, the blog of Julie Jordan. It’s the leading entry on her blog today. It was fun doing this interview and connecting with Julie, another child of a WWII Veteran. Her father was a B-29 pilot in the Pacific.
http://wp.me/pKBK0-2md

“Mollie’s War” is now listed in the Jewish Virtual Library.   It may be the only full length book by and about a Jewish WAC in WWII who was not a nurse.  It is listed under Schaffer, Mollie Weinstein and Cyndee Schaffer http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/bibwomenholo.html

Here is another video of my mother talking about firing a pistol during her WAC basic training.   This was taken during Thanksgiving 2009.

https://www.facebook.com/video/?id=1455800073#!/video/video.php?v=1159467314283

I just found this video of my mother at our first presentation and book signing for “Mollie’s War” at The Park in Vernon Hills where she lived before she passed away on April 8, 2012.   She had such a good time that evening.  The video is from October 20, 2010.  https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=713967127015

There is a very nice article in the Skokie Review about my speaking as part of a panel discussion at the Illinois Holocaust Museum on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in conjunction with the “Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War” exhibit.

http://skokie.suntimes.com/news/12523114-418/jewish-world-war-ii-vets-tell-of-battle-experiences.html

There is a wonderful article about my mother and “Mollie’s War” in today’s Northbrook Tower newspaper.    It begins on page 25.   “Northbrook resident’s book shares mother’s WWII story” http://www.northbrooktower.com/SitePage-28463.114133-Digital-Editions.html

There was a beautiful tribute to my mother in today’s Chicago Sun Times.   We were interviewed by Katies Drews from obituaries.com last week.  She saw my mother’s obituary about her WWII service as a WAC in the Chicago Tribune and it intrigued her.  http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/12072995-418/mollie-schaffer-95-veteran-of-wwii-womens-army-corps.html

If you could enjoy your own funeral, my mother would have loved hers. It was lovely, and everything she would have wanted, complete with eulogies by her daughter and granddaughter, escort by the Jewish War Veterans of Post 89, and full military funeral honors which included the playing of Taps, flag folding, and the presentation of the flag to her family.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3050291623709.2126090.1455800073&type=3&l=91f16737e9

This has been a very trying week for all of us.  We miss Mom so very much.
This morning when I opened my email, I found a link to an interview I did a few weeks ago about “Mollie’s War”, from inspiration to publication, with Morgen Bailey on her writing blog.    http://wp.me/p18Ztn-2od