A bit of WWII

[CTLady]

I have memories of World War II when we were living in New Jersey. When I was 4 years old I remember the blackouts and sitting on my mother's lap. Her facial expression was one of being far away; I knew she was worried about my brother who left for the US Navy at the age of 17. I remember seeing many military planes flying overhead and my mother using rationing stamps at the grocery store, and saving cooking fats in a large tin can to take to the store for the war effort. My older sister would speak of "chewing gum" (which wasn't available during the war) and she explained to me what it was. I just couldn't understand about "blowing bubbles with gum" and it was some time after the war that I understood what it was. My brother was "loaned" out to the Marine Corps as a Corpsman eventually in Okinawa, and at the war's end my family laughing and dancing around the living room shouting "Billy's coming home, Billy's coming home.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Interesting comment about the chewing gum!

 

[Lon]

I have memories of World War II when we were living in New Jersey. When I was 4 years old I remember the blackouts and sitting on my mother's lap. Her facial expression was one of being far away; I knew she was worried about my brother who left for the US Navy at the age of 17. I remember seeing many military planes flying overhead and my mother using rationing stamps at the grocery store, and saving cooking fats in a large tin can to take to the store for the war effort. My older sister would speak of "chewing gum" (which wasn't available during the war) and she explained to me what it was. I just couldn't understand about "blowing bubbles with gum" and it was some time after the war that I understood what it was. My brother was "loaned" out to the Marine Corps as a Corpsman eventually in Okinawa, and at the war's end my family laughing and dancing around the living room shouting "Billy's coming home, Billy's coming home.

I lived in Paterson during WW2---You were four and I was 10 but we share similar memories.

 

[RadishRose]

I wasn't born yet, but I do remember my mother folding and storing pieces of clean tin foil and putting them in a drawer. She told me it was a habit from the war.

I'm in Central CT and love the area you're in.