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Vandalized Swastika
Three teenage boys painted a red swastika on Meggie's glass window as they believed her grandfather was German. -
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Willow Run
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Leaving for Willow Run
Meggie and her family pack up and leave for the Willow Run leaving their grandpa behind. -
Arriving to Lansing, Michigan
Meggie and her parents complete the Willow Run and arrive in Lansing, Michigan at a factory for building military planes. -
Meeting Harlan
Meggie meets Harlan, the boy living on the other side of the wall, and they become extremely good friends helping eachother make it through the devestating war. Harlan and Meggie create a little peace in mind for one another on their everyday struggles. -
USA attacked
United States 1st B-29 was attacked by Japanese fighters. -
Russian Spy
Harlan and Meggie start to belive the ice cream man is a Russian Spy. -
War Planes
Messerschmitt 262 was the 1st jet bomber to make flight. -
Kentucky Derby
70th Kentucky Derby took place. -
Missing In Action
Meggie's family gets a letter saying their beloved son and brother has became missing in action fighting in the war. -
War Getting Worse
2nd Polsih Army captured US fighters in Monte Cassino Italy. -
Land Before War
Meggie's father takes Meggie on a walk showing her part of a beautiful scenery and tells her that the world looked like this before the war. Meggie begins to understand what is going on with the war and holocaust. -
Britsish Attack
Britsish Airborne attack capturing all Russian survivors -
Lessons Learned
Meggie is told a very important lesson about the holocaust and begins to hold hatred for Hitler. She is taught that the only reason for the holocaust is that "people can't learn to get along with Jews" also that "Jews are gone because they're Jews, old people gone cause they're old". Meggie doesn't think that there is anything wrong with Jews. -
Mom Begins to Work
Meggie's mom begins to work at the factory instead of just Meggie's father working, to earn more money, leaving Meggie home alone all day. -
Goodbye Harlan
Harlan leaves Lansing and goes back home to Detroit to begin school in a few weeks, Meggie is left clueless because everything she had done for the last two months was with Harlan or for Harlan.
