4/30/2024 0 Comments Piggly wiggly siler city weekly ad![]() ![]() But mama wouldn't let us visit her during that time, as she didn't like us around all the different people that were in and out. Lots of USO entertainers in and out all the time, (Red Skelton was one of them). My grandmother lived down by the shipyards and turned her house into a boarding house. We lived in Newport News, Virginia and I do have memories of all the activity there. Won't be able to offer much of my memories, as I was only 2 years old when it started and 6 when it ended. Have ALWAYS loved Studs Terkel, but have never read this one. I ordered my copy yesterday and anxiously awaiting it. I could go on forever with memories of the war years but won't do that. My Dad kept up so closely on everything that happened.Īfter Pearl harbor the memories are not vague anymore. Dad kept up with everything that happened.I have vague memories of Dunkirk, of France falling and that sort of thing. The war in Europe had been talked about constantly in our home by both my mother and dad. I was about 9 year old so the memories are vivid. We soon knew that some of these men had died. By the next day we knew that there were young men from our area who were on the ships that were bombed. As soon as we came into the house he began showing us in the Atlas exactly where Pearl Harbor was. He was always well informed on what was happening the in world. He was not a well educated man but kept up with current events on the radio and read every newspaper that he could get his hands on. I remember his words that Japan would shoot that back at us one day. The iron and steel from furnaces at a closed steel mill in Birmingham had been sold to Japan several years before the attack. ![]() He had been telling us for years that Japan would attack us. When we came back home my dad who was lways glued to the news on the radio told us that the Japan had boomed Pearl Harbor. My mother had taken my brother and me out into the woods behind our house to look for mistletoe to use in Christmas decorations. I remember the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. Is the author of the Pulitzer-prize winning, The "Good" War, an Oral History of World War II.ĭiscussion Leaders were:Joan Pearson and Robert Iadelucaħ% of your purchase price will be donated to SeniorNet!Īuthors who've participated in Books discussions Like your Internet group - strangers coming together to learn more about one another. This is a memory book, rather than one of hard, precise fact. I wanted to talk to people who had been kids at the time, to hear how they first experienced war and death. By the very nature of war, you are sending out kids to kill a stranger. World War II was a war that had to be, but not "good". Quotation marks have been added simply because the adjective, "good" mated to the noun, "war" is so incongruous. It is a phrase frequently voiced by men of his and my generation, to distinguish that war from other wars. The title of this book was suggested by a World War II correspondent. In the "Good" War, I wanted to focus on ordinary people rather than on celebrities, on ordinary people who do extraordinary things - to show what it was like for them and their families to live at that certain moment in history. I try to fill the role with the tape recorder. The telling of stories, "oral history" was the only history to exist before the printing press. It's important for younger generations to hear the Vets' stories and learn from them. No one remembers the Great Depression anymore. We seem to be suffering from a National Alzheimer's in our country. The disremembrance of this war is becoming disturbingly profound. "World War II is an event that changed the psyche as well as the face of the US and the world. The Importance of Sharing these Memories! It was one war that many who would have resisted, supported enthusiastically. It was not, most of us profoundly believed, "imperialistic." Our enemy was, patently, obscene: the Holocaust maker. ![]() Any discussion of the 20th century will center on this war,Įxperience Studs Terkel's Pulitzer Prize-winningĪ " Good War because. ![]()
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