Victory gardens

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Lorraine Mesken said people were eager to participate in victory gardens and bond drives. They felt it was their duty....
Gerald Rupert was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and grew up about 40 miles south of there [Annotator's Note: in South...
Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...
Linda Hope was born in 1939 [Annotator’s Note: She is the daughter of Bob and Dolores Hope]. She never realized the...
Calvin Moret was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 15 August 1925. His parents, Adolph, Sr. and Georgette had five boys...
Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...
Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...
Russell Mayeur was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1927. His family had a tough time during the Depression...
Clarke Langrall was born in December 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up during the Great Depression, things were...
Howard Genrich was born in 1925 in Algona, Iowa. At the time he was born, his parents were living with his grandparents...
Albert James "Jim" Ward was born in September 1927 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He was 14...
Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...
[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...
John L. Cowan did not know or care what a Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic...
Frank B. Stewart, Jr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1935. He is a...
Richard H. Kerr was born in June 1946 in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He grew up with a brother and sister. His father was a...
Doctor James B. Heneghan grew up in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He was born in La Porte, Indiana in...
Helen Kushnir was born in February 1926 in Dearborn, Michigan and has been there all of her life. She had three sisters...
Edwin McAuliffe remembers everyone having a Victory garden during the war. The McAuliffes also had chickens. McAuliffe'...
Linda Hope saw the tremendous feelings her father had toward service people and those that worked so hard to give back...
Albert James "Jim" Ward thinks the Museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana] does a...
Michael Mickey Ganitch was changed by the war. His family was affected by the Depression. They were lucky to be on a...
Robert Gurr heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor while cleaning a car seat. He saw a panicky neighbor running through...
Joyce Leblanc's memories of the war are vivid. Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] came to power...
There were two vacant lots near Frederick Hollis's home in Detroit. He decided to grow a Victory Garden in them. The...
Adelaide Benjamin had returned to New Orleans, Louisiana from El Paso, Texas by the time the war ended. When the...