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Love and SacrificeA Story from the Heart of America
The Reed family 1930: Ted, Buddy, Mildred and Ollie
A chapter-by-chaptersample selection of photographs
illustrating the narrative non-fiction
Love and Sacrifice
Dennis Whitehead1410 N. Nelson StreetArlington, VA 22201
www.loveandsacrifice.com
Chapter OneNorton, Kansas
“Hello Girl” telephone operator
Mildred Boddy Ollie Reed, center
Norton, Kansas 1885 Electricity comes to Norton
Bert Boddy, Mildred’s father Mildred and mother, Della, 1897
Boddy’s Baptist Builders @ 1915Della Boddy, center, Ollie Reed to her left
1915 Norton High School yearbook 1915 Norton High School yearbook
Tornado, Norton, Kansas June 24, 1909 Norton High School football Norton High student council
1911 crash of Frisbie’s flying machineNorton County fairgrounds
September 2, 1911 New York Times
Teddy Roosevelt whistle stop
Chapter TwoWar on the Horizon
1917 Kansas State Agricultural CollegeRoyal Purple yearbook
Student soldiers marching on Kansas State Agricultural College campus in 1917 (KSU)
Student soldiers marching on Kansas State Agricultural College campus in 1917 (KSU)
Induction center at Camp Funston
Group of officers at Camp Dodge
Cover of “Our Sons at Camp Dodge”produced by the Des Moines Register
Ollie and Mildred Reed 1917
Envelope of letter from Mildred to OllieNovember 13, 1917 headline about the train collision involving the 42nd Regiment
Ist Kansas Infantry in Eagle Pass, Texas 1916
Chapter ThreeNew Life Begins
1918 panorama of the 74th Infantry Regiment at Camp Devens, MA
Hospital beds filled with victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic (NLM)
Scrapbook page of photographs of infant Ollie W. “Buddy” Reed, Jr. 1919
Chapter FourArmy of Occupation
American Army of Occupation parade in Coblenz, Germany
Captain Reed joins a German hunting party Ollie and Mildred in Rome Quartermaster football team, Coblenz 1921
Mildred in latest fashion of 1920Niedermendig, Germany
Maria Laach Abbey near Andernach, Germany
Ollie and Mildred in Venice
Coblenz street scene
Buddy with Leta
Chapter FiveStateside: The Inter-War Years
Chapter SixProfessor Ollie Reed
Ted Reed 1922
Ted Reed 1922
Mildred and Ollie at Ft. Benning Buddy and Ted, Christmas 1923
Reed family of Norton, Kansas Norton, Kansas
Ft. Benning memorial to Calculator the dog
Gen. Wells’ plan for Fort Benning
Fort Benning
First anniversary of the death of Calculator
Fort Benning 1924
Drexel Institute varsity football team with Coach Ollie Reed, fourth from right, top row
Ted and Bud Reed Reed family in Merchantville, NJ
Chapter SevenBack to Benning
Chapter EightCommand and
General Staff School
Bo Sweet, Bud Reed, Anne Sweet and Ted Reed
Ted Reed’s 8th birthday party Ted, center, and best friends
Sweet and Reed children
Choir boys Post Chapel, Ft. LeavenworthTed Reed, Ann Almquist & Bill Pendergast
1933 graduating class of the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Ollie at far left in the front row.
Ted Reed and Ann Almquist Ted Reed and baby chicks
Captain Ollie W. Reed featured in the Infantry School News for his command of Company H which set a machine gun firing record at Fort Benning in 1929
Mildred, Ted and BuddyTed and puppy
Chapter NineLexington, Missouri
Chapter TenWest Point
Bud on banks of Missouri River Cadet Bud Reed and father
Parade drill at Wentworth Cast of Arnold School play
Ted, center, with best friends
Bud’s girlfriend, Nancy Campbell, with her grandmother
Bud in Wentworth football
Cadet Bud Reed and Laura Sloman at West Point in 1940
Incoming Plebes march up Williams Road Formation in the Yard at West Point Wartime training at West Point
1942 West Point graduation
Nancy Campbell with Reeds on visit to West Point in 1939
Mildred, Bud & Laura at graduation Following final parade
Chapter ElevenThe Philippines
Chapter TwelveWorld in Conflict
Junk sailing under mooonlight U.S. Army HQ Manila
Bud during visit from West Point with Ted Major Reed salutes fellow officer of the 31stPhilippine postcard
Ted at home in Manila
Ted and Captain Cook
Ollie and Mildred playing a game at home
Major Ollie Reed Touring the Philippine countryside Mildred departs PI USAT Grant Wedding announcement Bud & Laura’s wedding dayNancy Campbell at Jewell College
Morris & Richard Sloman 1906 Margaret Sloman Lawless & daughterMorris Sloman & Jane Scaife marriage certificate
Laura diary entryLaura & Bud 1941
Chapter ThirteenInto the Fray
Chapter FourteenEpilogue
Laura pregnant in Oregon Laura, Bud & Ollie W. Reed, III
Col. Reed, CO of the 309th Regiment
Ollie as stand-in father of the bridePortrait by Pfc. Luther Davis
29th Division soldier resting Artillery fire Painting of St.-Lo Ruins of St.LoHistoric Normandy, France
Laura marries Lt. Bill Vaughn
Left: Mildred’s memoirsAbove: Capt. Eugene Crowden
Photographs from Laura’s teaching career
Flying lessons hoping to be close to Bud
Birthday cake for the 3 Ollies Mildred & students in Valle Bravo, Mexico Mildred Reed in 1988
Ted Reed became director of the National Zoo
In April 1945, Ted Reed married Elizabeth Crandall