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> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in message >...
> > onono (Nancree) wrote in
> > :
> >
> > > I read part of your moving description of severe food shortage in
> > > wartime Britain, and could not locate it again. Would you please post
> > > it, or one like it, again? I would like to show it to my children.
> > > Thank you so much. Nancree
> >
> > Is that going to be another version of "you better finish your food because
> > children in China are starving"? <guilty grin>
> ==================
> (smile) Actually, no, but I can see why you guessed that. I believe
> in keeping history alive for our children. Especially history that
> has taken place in our (the parents) lifetime, which our children may
> be only vaguely aware of. My children now travel to, say, London, and
> know about hotels, monuments, moments in earlier history. But I think
> it makes the visit more meaningful if they know about wartime London.
> The expectance
> of imminent invasion by German troops--the street signs of London all
> taken down to confuse the invading Germans--no signs on the buses. Air
> raid sirens, hundreds of bombs hitting London, children sent, by
> government order, away from London to live with families in the
> countryside. The long fight back to the war's end. Then, post-war
> deprivation--skimpy supplies of food, fuel, transportation, clothing,
> shoes. Well, that's what I think we all, including our children,
> should remember. (so, no, we don't have to tell our children "you
> better finish your food because children in China" etc.)
> But thanks for your reply, Wayne. Regards, Nancree

Don't forget military hardware. Roosevelt knew full well that the
Germans wouldn't be beat without the might of U.S. manufacturing. For a
couple of years before we entered the fray we were sending guns and
ships to the UK under the Lend-Lease program that Roosevelt had worked
out with Churchill.

Food related - how about the concept of the Victory Garden. Grow as much
of your own as you could. I recall PBS did a series of 1940's house and
the family had to build both an air-raid shelter of their own and plant
and tend their own Victory Garden.