[SandRat]

Sierra Vistans Jim Graham, left, and George Rivest talk during Saturday’s World War II oral history event at the Ethel Berger Center. Participants gave first-person accounts of what life was like at home during World War II. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review)

[oyez]

All of a sudden all of the men were gone,

I've heard my Mother say exactly that.

My father was a senior in high school when the war started. As quickly as he graduated he joined the Navy. He served most of of time on the USS Elliot (DMS-4)

[SunkenCiv]

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[Tainan]

My Pop, A Scottish immigrant, was in the US Navy, 1919-1946, when this was happening. I came along in 1950. Momma, also Scottish, ran a beauty shop at this time.