Comments on: second Coastie thriller

By: Nancy Chmielewski

Nancy Chmielewski — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:16:11 +0000

Just saw in this blog you were in Eureka Springs- was it recently? Wish several of us had known- we are about 2hours away- aargh! Read the newest of Kate’s books- fabulous, and thank goodness Mutt lived! Noticed the Theodore Roethke quote- not exactly a household name any more, but we studied him in school, and he used to walk my dad and his sister to school in Saginaw (where my whole family was born)- did you know his name’s pronounced ret-kee? We used to always buy our plants at Roethke’s greenhouse!!! Nancy C

By: TomB

TomB — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:29:57 +0000

Just got a package from my son it was a DVD with a sound track that he made - 91 days on the Munro. Between your blog and now seeing the pictures/movies it looks like quite an experience. How he crammed 3 months into a 20 minute video I do not know, but it is great for his first attempt as a director.

Welcome back Munro - Dana we await your book!

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:34:24 +0000

Thanks for coming along for the ride, Judi!

By: Judi Hernandez

Judi Hernandez — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:17:52 +0000

Dear Dana,

Sounds like a winner! I finished Blindfold Game yesterday just about the time the Munro docked in home port. I have already recommended it to many people. I am truly looking forward to the next one; a best seller I am sure with all of your Coast Guard fans.

Still enjoying your blogs and photos as I share them with a Munro coastie’s brother just home from college. Also enjoying the many real life stories from the Munro.

Thanks again for the time you spent with them.

Judi Hernandez

By: Jean RunnerSmith

Jean RunnerSmith — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:52:31 +0000

Hey Dana!
How’s your hair?!!!! I thought I would drop you a note and let you know how you honored our little hole in the Ozarks by making time in your busy schedule for us. I still have customers commenting on how they wish they could have spent more time with you. Oh, and by the way the little lady that was here the day you were has some new bruises if you care to see them!!!!!
If you are ever back this way I hope you make some time to come by. Next visit, after we spiffy up in the beauty shop, I can show you the “real” Eureka Springs. It’s a great little town.
Jean

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:21:56 +0000

You can post anywhere you like, Michael, so thanks for the comment. Sorry about the inaccuracies, but you’re right, in spite of them it’s a great cover, one of my best, I think.

By: Michael Burke

Michael Burke — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:35:52 +0000

I can’t figure where else to post this:

I enjoyed “Better To Rest.” It was the cover that caused me to pick it up. However, I was surprised to find out the aircraft in the book was lost in December 1941 since the cover indicates a much later aircraft than 1941. I understand the cover was based on a photo of a C-47, probably taken in Europe in 1944

The national insignia in 1941 was a red circle at the center of white star inside a blue circle. By mid-1942 the red circle was dropped and later in 1942 a thin yellow circle was put around the blue circle. In 1943 the white bars were added with a thin red line bordering both the white bars and blue circle. Later in 1943 or early in 1944 the red was dropped and a thin blue line bordered the white bars, as shown on the cover. (I think it was in 1947 that the present horizontal red stripe was added to the middle of the white bars.)

Also, the black and white bands were painted both on wings and fuselage and called “invasion stripes.” They were worn only by allied aircraft participating in the Normandy invasion in 1944.

Maybe this will be of some use if you have a new edition coming out in the future. Still, it’s a great cover whether accurate or not.

By: Carol G

Carol G — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:24:49 +0000

Hey Dana,

Good to see you back online. Looking forward to more here and on the printed page. My son wrote that you were missed by all after you left the ship.

Regards,
Carol G.
a Munro Coastie mom

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:12:33 +0000

Delighted to hear it! As to the light, I was born and raised with it, it seems normal to me. I know some people have a hard time with it, though, especially when we’re all still going strong at 11pm at night. Gotta use the light. We make up for it during the winter when it’s dark, sleep longer, spend more time in front of the wood stove with a book.

By: MF Makichen

MF Makichen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:09:46 +0000

Hi Dana,
I can’t wait for the new book!

By the way I recently visited my brother in Homer. I’d always heard about the constant light of the Alaska summer but it was something else entirely to experience it. Do you find it hard to adjust to those long days of light?