...is my memory. In a story about Grandpa and me, I had Rocky Colavito playing with the Indians after he was traded to the Tigers. He was later traded back to Cleveland leaving some confusion in my second grade brain. In that same story I tied my grandfather's Parkinson's disease in with a piece about the Army Veterans Hospital in Broadview Heights by the very cool Erin O'Brien. Yep! I had Grampa in the wrong hospital. My mother told me he was at Crile Army Veterans Hospital on York Rd in Parma, on land that is now the Cuyahoga Community College West Campus. Named after George W. Crile one of the founders of the world famous Cleveland Clinic, Crile served as both a Veterans hospital and a camp for German POW's in WWII. Later during the Cold War, Crile was used as a hospital and as a Nike Ajax missle site.
THE CRILE ARCHIVES & CENTER FOR HISTORY EDUCATION: Where Students Connect with History The Crile Archives began as a student project in 1994 as part of the 50th commemoration of WW II. Both the Archive and the College were designated as a "Commemorative Community" by the Department of Defense in 1995. The Crile Archives is a repository of 20th century military history. It contains documents, artifacts, and oral histories of veterans of WW I, WW II, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war. The most recent additions are a POW archive, Nurses, and African American veterans. Crile Hospital was in continuous service from 1944 until 1964.
I have found that some of my older memories have taken on details that aren't factually correct. Maybe the year it happened or where we lived at the time . . . but I'm OK with that. For me, revisiting the memory is to touch again what I felt at the time. Whether I wore the blue dress or the lavender at that event just doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree Limes. What i actually did for the original post was disregard my memory. I thought I had just confused the two hospitals and went with the false memory I had after seeing Erin's post about the old hospital. They are only a few miles apart. Learned lessons; trust memory but double check.
ReplyDeleteTrust and verify is what I was taught!
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