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b'SHOW NOTES\\xa0\\xa0 Published August 5, 2007 Lisa\'s Movie Pick:\\xa0 Full of Life (1957).\\xa0 It\'s a really heartwarming movie about immigrants and their American born children that you can watch comfortably with your kids and your grandkids.\\xa0\\xa0 The novel by John Fante is still available:\\xa0 \\xa0\\xa0 GEM:\\xa0 Freedom of Information Act Follow Up Email from Richard Hrazanek:\\xa0 "I loved the tip about requesting your ancestor\'s immigration file through the Freedom of Information Act. Do you know if you can do the same thing with a person\'s military record." FOIA can assist you in obtaining military records. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Website article: \\xa0\\xa0 Rod Powers of About.com does a great job outlining article: Access to Military Records by the General Public, including genealogists who are not next-of-kin devoted to the 4th Infantry Division 224th Infantry Regiment Company "D" which his uncle served in.\\xa0 Timothy outlines his experience with obtaining military records.\\xa0\\xa0 GEM:\\xa0 Thanks for the Memories Get a piece of paper or pull up a word document.\\xa0\\xa0Close your eyes for a second, and visualize a favorite memory from your childhood.\\xa0 In my case I started with a favorite place, my maternal grandma\'s house.\\xa0 But perhaps yours is the back alley where you and your friends played baseball, or your great uncle\'s garage where\\xa0he showed you how to work on cars.\\xa0 Whatever is meaningful to you. Now, open your eyes, and write your thoughts one at a time.\\xa0 Just free flow it. They don\'t have to be complete sentences.\\xa0 Later you can try your hand at writing more of your actual experiences or memories of a person.\\xa0 Again, it doesn\'t have to be a novel or sound really professional.\\xa0 It\'s just the memories from you heart. Tie together this gem with episode 20\'s Sweet Memories gem where we made a family history chocolate bar label for a candy bar that could be tucked in a Christmas Stocking as a gift.\\xa0 Replace the Ingredient\'s list on the back label with a text box that includes these free flowing memories about the photo that appears on the front label.'