Surprisingly, very few people seem to remember the hard times of living in America during World War II. We were very limited as to the amount of food and other commodities, and we lived in constant fear of being bombed. How can anyone forget that?
"How do I remember so much of the war since I was only a young child? Well, fear is never forgotten, and although Germany never had the opportunity to bomb our East Coast, we always lived with that possibility. As a result, we lived in fear every day. In fact, even now, sixty years after the war, I still get apprehensive whenever I hear a plane fly overhead. I guess old habits are hard to break. Of course, I laugh at myself for such foolishness, but that is what war does to you. You never forget. I remember running through the streets in total darkness while the air raid sirens blared and trying to get home or find cover and hoping I wouldn't run into a telephone pole or fall over something while listening for the shrill screams of the falling bombs."
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