Fantastic NON-fiction Book Group: Once Upon A Town

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Book Discussion

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Adult
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Once Upon A Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen 

by Bob Greene

During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific.  Every day of the year, every day of the war, the North Platte Canteen—staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers—was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended.

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