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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
I don't know where you went to school but I attended a one room elementary school in rural Iowa where the road we walked to get there was a dirt road. When it rained it became ankle deep mud and we had to wear overshoes. When it snowed it was sometimes 6-8 inches of snow. Yes it was an uphill walk. My brother and I only had a half mile walk but there were a couple of boys that had a two mile walk. The heat for the winter months was a large coal/wood burning stove we had to shove our desks around in order to stay warm. No running water and outhouses.
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Sounds like a tough early life, but if that was all you knew, maybe it wasn't so bad. Where I grew up, every home had running water and no outhouses. It sounds like back then that there were 2 Americas - the coastal US and the Mid West.
..........Actually, maybe things are still the same today.