[LadyX]

"There's a patriotic fervor in this country now that I've never seen"

Just a little bit ahead of you, Nan and I remember WWII vividly, TC, when you were still a toddler, and this actually cannot hold a candle to how it was then.

Just about everyone had a relative or neighbor or friend in service, blue flags in windows everywhere, proudly displayed.
The print media and radio were our main sources of limited information. Mail, the only direct contact with the military abroad, was heavily censored, any sensitive information/location/etc. blacked out by hands through which they had to pass.

Our daily life was geared toward the 'War Effort' - in second grade when Pear Harbor happened, we lined up every week to purchase war stamps for a dime each to paste in our war bond books.
Everyone collected scrap metal and old paper and turned it in to be recycled for, again, the War Effort, by which our lives were ruled.
Production plants and shipyards abounded all over the nation.

We lived with rationed goods, every civilian man, woman and child issued them for things like sugar and coffee and shoes - only 4 pairs per year per person allowed, so the miitary could have boots.

If you were near a base, you invited men to dinner or an evening with a family, or holidays, etc.

After enduring the harsh and disgraceful mindset of much of America during the Nam period, this day and time is heartening indeed....

NEVER AGAIN will our heroes have to slink home
is our cry - - -

[Pippin]

hi, LadyX!

[Dubya]

Everyone collected scrap metal and old paper and turned it in to be recycled

They put my picture on the front page of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram news paper for bring in the most. :^)

[Dubya]

We also had Victory gardens to help out with food for people who needed it and save food for the Military.

[JustAmy]

I remember when my father was called for the draft during WWII. He failed the physical and he had 3 children so he did not serve.

I remember soldiers and sailors everywhere we went. It was definitely a time of patriotism. I am ashamed of the way our troops were treated after VietNam.

I have a couple of my pictures from last year if you want to steal them, Cowboy!





That is probably all you can manage for now. Hope Jim took more pictures today. It was a beautiful sight to see so many large flags flapping in the breeze.