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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42093)	1/9/2002 9:46:32 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 82486

Chris, I was in grade school during the war... And I want to make it clear that I personally made no contribution to it ... other than the scrap drives of the time where we kids collected paper, tin, rubber, etc., for the war effort. We had a war map on the blackboard, and every morning we would re-position miniature flags with pins to track the movement of our soldiers across Europe. We had to put up with sacrifices and inconveniences on the home front, (three gallons of gas per week!) but they were paltry and trivial in comparison to what the lads overseas were going through. I lived in a small town and knew a lot of older kids who were serving, and all too frequently, dying. The war years are one of the most vivid memories of my life. It seems that just about every day I will a flash of memory about a some kid I knew who never came back. It won't be long before their is no one left with any such personal recollections about how close and personal the war was to everyone living then.