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In article <1992Nov13.153050.25613@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes:
>Must have been a strange time back 50 years ago.

My mother's stories of the time include:
	living in a horse stable (like Christmas) at Santa Anita Race Track,
	so it is funny to watch Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion
	which was filmed there.

	attending Los Angeles High under internment orders, this is a
	building in the old TV series Room 222.

	she describes saving toothpaste tubes to be melted down for use
	in fighters.  Recycling was a necessity.  Car tires were impossible
	to get, gas and food were rationed.

	she describes a big white Red cross ship going to Tokyo.

	she remembers floating at head level in a river while Tokyo was
	burning (March 1945).

	she had these old lps with Japanese music.

	working in McArthur's GHQ doing translation.

My father's stories include:
	the usual walk five miles in the snow to get to school (Utah Valley)
	suppose every one used to get that.

	cut railroad ties for fire wood

	move to Chicago and idolize Al Capone (modern day Robin Hood).
	banks as evil and other depression stories.

	go to a Normandy beachhead wondering whether they would get
	cut down by German burp guns or heavy machine guns while listening
	to Scottish bag pipes.

	walking in Patton's army and being threatened with fines if your
	uniform wasn't immaculate: boot shined, helmet polished, unless
	you were coming off the line.

Strange? Maybe.  Followups to soc.culture.japan.

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