[or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting Verdena Veelle <vveelle at molalla.net>:

> Amen to your comments, Dorothy!!
> Verdena Veelle
> 
> Subject: [or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II
> 
> 
> : I grew up during the Great Depression and was a teenager during
> : W.W.II.  The "way things were" didn't bother us because it was
> : our way of life.
> :
> : On the coast, during the Depression we didn't know we were poor
> : because everyone else was too.  Our rarents knew different many
> : times when they had nothing to eat for several days.  Mother said
> : that after a few days you forgot you were hungry.
> :
> : At the end of the Depression we moved to Portland, Or.
> : There we were amazed at the milk delivery trucks, ice trucks, etc.
> : Everyone loved the ice-man!  The kids would flock after him as he
> : took the big tongs and carried the block of ice to the houses.
> : Sometimes the order (card in the window) was for part of a brick.
> : He'd chisel a line across and break the ice into a smaller piece.
> : Then we'd all jump to scoop up the slivers of ice.
> :
> : When Pearl Harbor happened, we were very confused about our future.
> : Everyone pitched in and did what they had to.
> :
> : There were no demonstrators questioning what we should do.
> : The nation worked together and got the job done.  Sure there were
> : innocent people killed as in all wars.  That is a sad part of war.
> :
> : These demonstrators today wouldn't have this land and the freedoms
> : they enjoy if we'd layed down and let the oprressor walk all over
> : us.  I'm not for wars but as long as some nations/groups are out to
> : terriorize and kill people, they will remain  wars in our future.
> :
> : Today we are spoilt in a way.  Read your history and you will be
> : a better, humble citizen - unless you are one of those who delight
> : in terrorizing and murdering people.  Then you had better get your
> : head screwed  on correctly.
> :
> : I am PROUD to be an American and I will do whatever I can to keep
> : our nation free!
> :
> : Dorothy Webb
> :
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Verdena,
Thank you for your comments.  After I had posted that mesage, I figured that 
I "had done it again."  I expected some cutting coments from persons about 
my "Old Fashioned" way of thinking and all the harsh words they could think 
of.  Instead,; what a delightful collection of other's personal memories.
Maybe you are about my age- 75.  It was a good life

Dorothy