Prompted to Share our Family Heritage

Last month I wrote a post about my project of scanning my father-in-law's Air Force Papers. You can read it here: 
https://jamisonsomewhereintime.blogspot.com/2019/01/sharing-pilots-treasured-cabin-bag.html. After scanning the papers that were stored in the pilot's "satchel", I printed each page and prepared 3-ring binders to distribute to my husband's six children, his half-brother, and his nephew. 

Yesterday, my nephew received his notebook as a Valentine's Day gift. His wife graciously made a video of him as he opened his gift and sent it to me. That was MY Valentine's Gift! In a thank you note I received from him afterward, he expressed the fact that several weeks ago he had expressed to his wife that he often wondered what his grandfather did during World War II. And here within weeks of expressing that concern, he received the collection of Air Force Papers that revealed all those details about his grandfather's WWII service. 

In addition to sending my nephew the 3-ring binder of papers, I sent him this collection of old newspapers that were published in the home county of my father-in-law, his grandfather. You can read my blog post about them here: 
https://jamisonsomewhereintime.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-88-year-span-of-heirloom-newspapers.html

Again, as a coincidence, or actual prompting from my late husband, I sent these antiques to my nephew shortly after he had expressed to his wife a desire to know more about the hometown and county of his father and paternal grandparents and great-grandparents. Since I don't believe in coincidences, I choose to believe it was my husband, Larry C. Jamison, who prompted me in love to send these family heirlooms to his nephew. It's gratifying to know that they've been received in the same Spirit that they were sent, that Spirit of sharing and loving our family, our heritage, and honoring our beloved ancestors.