Chasing Hazel's Tales - A Family History Podcast · Kimberly McLaughlin & Laura Ireland - Music by Andrew Mclaughlin
Ep 25 - Carl Laing - A Life Well Lived
·30 min·3 clips
Carl Lang received a Purple Heart after being hospitalized at age 32 for perforating wounds as a battle casualty.
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A life is pieced together from the papers it left behind.
Carl Lang’s story is built from what survives: letters, a note to a judge about an overload of white birch, and the family memories that gather around them. The sisters handle those scraps carefully, asking what can actually be proved and letting the evidence carry the weight.
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A quiet man's life, reconstructed from the papers he saved.
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