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From: Snowden, Margo< >
Subject: Re: [GM-L] air raid wardens
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:05:25 -0800


Speaking of the war, does anyone remember having to wear dog tags as
children? I was in elementary school and had to. There were two
metal tags one was the name and address, the other was the name and
blood type. When I ask anyone else if they wore them, they have all
said no. It was probably because we were in the vicinity of Nellis
Air Force Base. Just curious. Margo
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Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [GM-L] air raid wardens


>In a message dated 2/22/2000 8:53:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>> Am I the only one who remembers that siphoning gas out of other
people's
>> cars was an activity that occurred during air raids also?
>
>Siphoning gas, no, I never heard of such a thing! Most of the people
I knew
>were very patriotic and of great character during this period of
time. Of
>course, everything that was also needed for the war effort, including
food,
>was rationed. We were so poor that we did not use all of our
rations, in any
>category, ever, so know that there was ample to go around, re. most
goods.
>Certainly people who had to commute to work had problems with
gasoline and
>tires, I can see. Wealthy people felt more deprived than poor folks
and most
>people with ambition and property had "Victory Gardens."
>
>My, childhood, memories are of good people and terrible worrisome
times. I
>will never forget a lady telling me that her only son, a pilot, was
lost in
>the Pacific. I was about 13 at the time, and she brought the awful
truth of
>the war to me. At the time we had 14 cousins and uncles from my
combined
>families in the service. One didn't make it home, and several stayed
in
>Occupied Japan for some time. Then not too long after all had
settled down,
>the Korean stuff started and that took my generation of young men.
Will this
>madness ever stop!
>
>Phoebe
>
>

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