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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (4653)	10/27/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Henry: << In the summer of '44 Patton was forced to stop so they could divert fuel to Montgomery.>> That's surprising, I wouldn't have thought he'd consume much fuel in idle.<g> My comments of the way the Americans were involved and touched by WWII seems a tad solipsistic when considering the European and Russian experience. But still, when considering the dedication and sacrifices of the general population of the U.S., it was something special. In San Francisco, a park down the street from me was turned into a staging area for troops. In school we had air raid drills, and every home had blackout curtains, plus rationing of food stuffs, no antibiotics, tires were like gold, etc...but almost no complaints. My mother worked in an office at a shipyard, while my ex-mother-in-law made like Rosie the Riveter. There was almost full employment, with many working double shifts...this in a time when women hadn't been considered a meaningful part of the workforce. But most of all, even to the very end of the war, there seemed to be a fierce dedication - a sense that we'd do everything necessary to prevail. The only person I've known that lived in Germany during WWII was a friend who spent most of that time on a farm outside Dusseldorf - he too was drafted in his early teens near the end of the war...but he's never cared to dwell on his experiences of that time, which I can understand.