Posted by LA in WI on March 18, 2013 at 10:18:26 from (64.251.222.158):
In Reply to: Re: Picture for Today posted by ShadetreeRet on March 18, 2013 at 08:57:15:
I was a little boy during WWII. I lived in a small town in Iowa. Word was passed around the town that on a certain night there was going to be a "lights out" drill. There would be a short blast of the fire siren, then my dad was one of the men who went out and walked every street checking to see that everyone had every light turned off. If you had even a small light on, they would knock on the door and tell you to get it turned off. After a certain time lights would come back on...maybe it was another short siren as I don't recall that.
The reason for all this was so the German bombers couldn't see our town from the air on night raids, like the Allies were doing to German cities. I find it slightly amusing because the German Luftwaffe never did have long range bombers that could make it to the East coast (maybe one way), let alone way out to the Midwest. And a little town of 135 people likely didn't have a munitions factory or military field near it.
But people were so patriotic during WWII they would do anything to make themselves feel good helping out in "the war effort".
Besides, war was brought home to that town with news on the radio about someone's son missing in action, meaning most likely that son was never coming home. Then a gold star would appear in that family's house window.
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