Small-town heroes shine in WWII
BOOK REVIEW
by Linda Johnson
LW contributor
“Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen” by Bob Greene Nonfiction, May 2002 The time was December 1941. The place was North Platte, Nebraska.
On Christmas Day, some residents decided they should do something for the servicemen/ women coming through their tiny town on the troop trains. They created the North Platte Canteen,