old enough to remember wwii
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
WW II..........me too.
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Not only old enough to remember WW2, I was the one who told my parents that the Haps had bombed Pearl Harbor. I was 5. Having Sunday dinner (remember those?) at neighbors’ house. I was allowed to leave the table before adults had finished their meal. Went into living room, turned on radio to listen to music just in time to hear Roosevelt announce it...went and told parents. My dad and every other man in America went to the draft board Monday morning to volunteer for service.
Still makes me cry to think about it—lives lost, shortages, gold and silver stars on almost every window. Friends just 10 years younger have no idea how horrible it was and how many people lost sons, husbands,, brothers. Shortages: No butter, no paper, no new cars, etc etc...and yucky margarine with packets of orange dye that you mixed in to make it look better.
I was too young but knew one of the guys at the Ambassadors residence standing security on the wall during the fall of Saigon. Amazing stories.