The American Soldier in Barnstable, MA

The joy of performing this play and telling the stories I do are all the other stories they unlock from the veterans and families in the audience. A lot of the stories that are shared afterward are incredibly moving, but I love sharing the funny ones.

I remember being invited to an extraordinary lunch in Austin, Texas, after a show. I had the incredible honor to sit down with five WWII veterans; one fought at the Battle of the Bulge, one was prisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, and one was even part of the landing on the beaches of D Day. That particular gentleman told an incredibly funny story of his religious captain, who would not let his unit sleep at a French farm, which had a mother and two of her daughters residing. When the captain noticed that there were three females, he said that he would move on and find somewhere else to stay. The mother at the Barn said, "Don't worry about my girl's captain; they keep everything upstairs!" As she pointed to her head. The captain replied, "Mam, I don't care when your girls keep it, MY BOYS WILL FIND IT! 😂 😂Boy, I wish I had that story recorded.

This video is another wonderfully funny story shared with me when I shared that I was blind in one eye.