How did they survive? They had another hidden food cellar out in the hills."
If they had TWO STASHES, and had enough to survive after one was confiscated...how many GIs were deprived of food? How many hard working Americans,including kids were deprived of rations? Remember Victory Gardens... oops guess they had a "stash" garden in Texas.
Which was worse, Hoarding as in TWO stashes or the Black Market trafficking? Our men were at war and we were deprived. Sounds like things were not so patriotic in parts of this country even then.. Were they Dems? All JMO
I was raised up in a poor family , we did not hoard food and we did not starve.
The only thing i remember having food stamps for was sugar, there may have been other things but the only thing i was interested in was sugar because that meant candy.
The only thing i worried about is if that S.O.B. could come over here and exterminate me.
Lessons learned from Tuketu’s post:
1. The “We’re entitled to your stuff” crowd is, was, & will always be with us. Whenever you see the word “deprived”, you know somebody is pissed you have something they don’t, and will use fed.gov to steal it.
2. The excuses remain the same: hard-working Americans, the chilluns’, the troopies, patriotism (which I guess covers all the freeloaders, too). Fair Share Crowd PING applies here.
3. That ensuring your own survial could be akin to, or worse than profiteering.
4. Caching and OPSEC should be higher on everyone’s priority lists.
5. It always seems to boil down to individual -vs- collective, so plan accordingly and see #4.
JMO,
LB
They had just come out of a depression and drought. They learned the value of two cellars. The food was stuff they had canned several years before.
***how many GIs were deprived of food? ***
What is really interesting is the SAME MAN who confiscated the home canned food was the same government agent who, ten years earlier, had bought up all the cattle he could get, dug a hole and shot them, then buried them.
None. We prosecuted WWII with no starvation amongst our troops.
*** Our men were at war and we were deprived.***
No they weren’t. The men going into landing craft were fed steak before, and there was enough meat on hand that one sailor grabbed a big raw roast from the kitchen and tried to catch a shark.
The people back home were trying to rebuild their herds after the government slaughtered and buried thousands of cattle years before, and all farmers tried to keep two years supply in case of a crop failure.