03-28-2020, 02:30 PM
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Dazed and Confused
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TN
Posts: 11,624
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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
Yeah, this is tame compared to WW II. My mom told me about nightly blackouts so that enemy aircraft could not use city lights as a beacon for bombing raids. Rationing of gasoline and food items. Nightly curfews. Precious metals diverted to the war effort (remember steel pennies?)
Our parents survived years of this. We can survive a few months. This too shall pass.
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Yes, and collecting peach pits for gas masks was something my grandparents and oldest of my aunts and uncles did for WWI. My parents were a little younger and were teens during WWII, but lived in rural W. TN where they didn't have anything much to ration in the first place. My father turned 18 and joined the Navy. While on the train to California for basic, WWII ended. He was discharged after a month or two there.
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