WWII Questions....?

Question

1.What were you doing when you heard the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor? How old were you in 1941?

2.What one thing - a phrase, picture, activity - most often comes to mind when you think back of those years?

3.How did food and gas rationing work? What were victory gardens, and did you have one? Did you participate in a scrap drive?

4.In what other ways did ordinary people support the war effort?

5.How did you learn about what was happening overseas? Did you do anything special to keep track of the war news, like keeping a scrapbook?
6. How much time did you spend in school talking about the war?

7.How did the war affect your family life? Did any members of your immediate family go overseas?

8. Did you have any friends that were affected by the war? Explain.

9.What were you doing when you heard that the Atomic Bomb had been dropped on Japan and the war was over? Do you think it was necessary to use the

Answer 1

1. I answered this in your other question. Please check it out there.
2. The phrase I remember the most, perhaps because I have heard it so many times in newsreels and docmentaries, was Roosevelt's "A day that will live in infamy."
3. Our family received a coupon book that told us how much coffee, sugar, shoes, tires, meat, etc. we could buy each week, month or year. We really tried to be as conservative as possible and since we had a very small farm we were not only able to supplement out own food but we were also able to pick up some extra money and trade for other coupons by selling or trading chickens, eggs, and the occasional rabbit.
4. Everyone in our community took savings and being careful as something that was very serious. No one tried to cheat the system. No one complained. We all knew that what was being done was more important than our temporary wants. In addition, my father was in charge of the local civil defense night-watch. He had to go out every night and make sure everyone had their lights turned off.
5. We learned from the newspapers and radio mostly, and the newsreels at the theatre although we didn't see movies very much.
6. Actually we didn't talk about it all that much in school. In school the purpose was to learn. It was a much stricter environment than exists today.
7. My father was too young for WW I and to old for WW II. My brothers were too young for WW II, they were in school.
8. Everyone was affected by the war, absolutely everyone. Our entire lives were affected, changed, determined by the war. This is not like the War in Iraq that we sort of hear about every now and then. Everything was focused on the war.
9. I was at home at the dinner table when my parents talked about it. I remember thinking that perhaps now the war would be over. We couldn't understand what it meant to have a bomb that would do that much damage.

Answer 2

I doubt you will find very many answerers who will be able to answer these questions, as most people on yahoo answers were not born yet. You should ask your grandparents or some of the older ones at your church.

Answer 3

Go visit a retirement home. It will probibly feel unconfertable, but the people their would love your visit. They could probibly answer your questions, some of them, far better than anyone on this forum.

Answer 4

I WAS BORN IN OCT,1956,I WAS THE 4TH KID(2ED SON) OF MY DAD WHO WAS IN

THE WAR.MY DAD DIED WHEN I WAS 9 OF DRINKING TO MUCH ALCOHOL,HE DRANK

ALL THE TIME TRYING TO GET RID OF ALOT OF BAD MEMORYS.EVERY TIME DAD

GOT DRUNK HE WOULD SIT AND CRY ABOUT ONE OF HIS BUDDYS THAT BURNED TO

DEATH RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.HIS BUDDY CRASHED HIS PLANE ON LANDING AND

THE GUY WAS TRAPED INSIDE,DAD AND 2 OTHER MEN TRYED TO GET HIM OUT BUT

FAILD.I HEARD DAD TALK OF THAT DAY MANY TIMES BEFOR HE DIED BUT I WAS

TO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND AT THE TIME.AS I GOT OLDER AND LEARNED MORE

ABOUT THE HELL OF WW2 I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND WHY DAD DRANK HIMSELF TO

DEATH.NOW THAT I KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HELL OUR MOMS AND DADS WENT THREW

TO GIVE US ALL FREEDOM I WANT EVERYONE TO REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR AND TO

REMEMBER WHAT HELL OUR MOMS AND DADS WENT THREW,IF IT WASENT FOR THEM

ME,YOU, AND EVERYONE IN USA WOULD NOT BE HERE RIGHT NOW SO REMEMBER

MANY MOTHERS AND FATHERS GAVE UP THERE LIVES SO WE COULD HAVE ONE.NEVER

FORGET!