senior citizen
12-14-2012, 07:07 AM
Who among us remember their mom or dad telling them where they were exactly when they heard the news that Pearl Harbor had been attacked?
Sounds strange, but once again, my mom was "ironing".
I guess she listened to the radio while she was ironing.....as nothing was permanent press in those days.
I do not remember my dad talking about the war years or the depression years at all........but my mom would tell us about everything that had happened before we were born.............
Later, her "baby brother" would serve in the South Pacific in the medic corps, coming home only after the war was over.......to see me take my first steps. He was my Godfather.
Her other brother then was in the Korean War as a parachutist.
Difficult days for many families.........but my dad never had to serve due to his heart condition........I have his draft cards from World War One as well as World War Two........found on ancestry.com
My husband's uncle drove a truck in Europe during WWII.
My cousin, who shares my Italian genealogy, was actually fighting in Italy with the American Army..........as well as my Dad's nephews......they are the G.I.'s that later went to my grandmother and grandfather's ancestral village to take photos of the townsfolk, the castle, the damage an earthquake had done to the family baking "mill", etc.
Sounds strange, but once again, my mom was "ironing".
I guess she listened to the radio while she was ironing.....as nothing was permanent press in those days.
I do not remember my dad talking about the war years or the depression years at all........but my mom would tell us about everything that had happened before we were born.............
Later, her "baby brother" would serve in the South Pacific in the medic corps, coming home only after the war was over.......to see me take my first steps. He was my Godfather.
Her other brother then was in the Korean War as a parachutist.
Difficult days for many families.........but my dad never had to serve due to his heart condition........I have his draft cards from World War One as well as World War Two........found on ancestry.com
My husband's uncle drove a truck in Europe during WWII.
My cousin, who shares my Italian genealogy, was actually fighting in Italy with the American Army..........as well as my Dad's nephews......they are the G.I.'s that later went to my grandmother and grandfather's ancestral village to take photos of the townsfolk, the castle, the damage an earthquake had done to the family baking "mill", etc.