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We're going to be talking about artifacts & mementos passed down from the vets, what they meant for them and what they mean for us now. We’ll be joined by Shannon O'Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, to present about the archival material from the vets.

Karen Nussbaum, ALBA Honorary Board Member, Founding Director of 9-5, National Association of Working Women District 925, SEIU, Working America, AFL-CIO.

Mike Nussbaum (1923-2023) acted and directed in scores of plays, including the Pulitzer Prize winning New York production “Glengarry Glen Ross.

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We do it for ourselves, as we seek every way we can to make a difference, and for all who will live in a future being decided today.

That’s why ALBA is so important. ALBA brings to life the people and lessons of combating fascism, all too relevant now. We are moved by these heroes, everyday people like ourselves, who stood up. They need the broadest possible audience.

Today, I honor my father, and I fear for my grandchildren. I didn’t expect to be fighting fascism in my own country, and against opponents who are so diabolically good at what they are doing. Like many of you, I shudder to think of the world we leave to those who come after us.

After the WWII, Love married and lived in New York balancing political activities with a career in the communications field. He died on October 27, 1990

He shares a birthday with Patrick Roosevelt, who is also pictured in the second image (behind the machine gun).

Albert returned to the US on July 2, 1938 aboard the President Harding (depicted above). He later served in the US Navy during WWII. He passed on February 17, 1988.

Joseph spoke Italian, Spanish, and English. He returned to the US on Dec. 20, 1938.

He worked as a machinist in Waynesburg, OH and married Nadeane Stratton. He passed on Jan. 21, 1990 and is buried at Sandy Valley Cemetery, Waynesburg, Ohio.

¡Salud!

Joseph was assigned to the Albacete Auto Park beginning April 5, 1937; later the Benisa hospital beginning June 9, 1937; the Denia hospital beginning June 28, 1937; the 45th Division Transport, Sanidad; and later to 5th Army Corps, Sanidad, Transport. His last unit was back with the 45th Division.

See Maynard speak at “Songs for the Cause,” the benefit concert held on October 16, 2010 at the Museum of the City of New York, with Pete Seeger, Patti Smith, and Guy Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95...

Maynard was an active member of VALB/ALBA and published a short piece about attempting to play baseball in Spain in the #VolunteerForLiberty just 1 year before he passed. You can read it here: albavolunteer.org/2010/08/base...

Erwin is believed to have died in 1970. More research is needed to better understand his life after Spain.

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Erwin never received a passport to travel to Spain but rather worked his way over to Europe and jumped ship to enter Spain either in 1937 or 1938. He served in the Lincoln-Washington Battalion in the Service Sanitaire and was wounded in action on March 10, 1938 at Belchite.