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Originally Posted by salferg
We didn't have tv, but gathered around a console radio to listen to Fibber McGee and Molly,
Lone Ranger and for news of the war. Fleers bubble gum was hard to get. Toilet paper, sugar, tires were rationed. We had food stamps that allowed each person to get rationed items. We lived close to an airbase and would go stand by the street and wave to truckloads of soldiers as their conveys passed thru town. There was a POW camp that housed German prisoners and we would go stand at the fences and watch them. Oh my! Once the memories start to unfold I could go on and on!
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Remember driving to the airport to watch the planes come in and out and maybe getting an ice cream on a summer night?
I had a WAC purse, just like the real girl soldiers.
We played with army jeeps in the sandbox, my boy cousin and I. There were stars on the windows of neighbors who had lost sons in the war.
Sugar was rationed. Vaccinations were HUGE on your arm and hurt for weeks.