Posted by HENRY E NC on September 25, 2007 at 06:22:05 from (216.119.6.26):
In Reply to: Ken Burns The War posted by scott#2 on September 24, 2007 at 17:36:40:
I was a boy during WW II and the memories are etched in my mind. I lived on a farm near Akron Ohio. I worked everyday on the farm since I was 8 yrs old and when the war started most of the men and women got jobs in the rubber and steel industries in town. Most people worked two jobs or two shifts. Barns were converted to dormitories and many homes rented out their spare bedrooms to workers from West Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas. Goodyear Aircraft made Corsairs in the huge airship hanger and tested them daily over our farm. Everything was rationed and you needed stamps to buy gas and points to buy meat. If you were against the war you were a traitor and put in detention camps. My memories reflect the greatest nation on earth at that time and today I have trouble seeing how far we have come down as a nation. I could write a book about the things I have lived through .
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