Email This PageRuth Wolf Page ’42
Ruth Wolf Page ’42
Ruth Wolf Page ’42 recently published a compilation of servicepersons’ experiences during World War II with three other residents of the Wake Robin Continuing Care Retirement Community in Shelburne, Vt. The quartet spent almost three years fact-checking, editing, and collecting photos of the authors in uniform during the 1940s for the book Our Great War. An astounding 65 Wake Robin residents contributed their wartime tales to the collection. The book contains stories from the U.S., Atlantic, and Pacific services, Europe, the Far East, and even a piece by a soldier who was present for a full day of trials in Japan following the war—he observed Hidelei Tojo, Emperor Hirohito, and all the famous Japanese admirals in the courtroom. The volume also includes a medical section with stories by doctors, nurses, and aides, members of the Navy and Marines, and even an admiral and provides a glimpse into what often were residents’ unshared memories. According to Page: “Many of the stories had never been told before—even to family members—because the memories were in many cases too bloody and horrendous. But 60 years later, they felt able to write the details of their experiences.”
