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Where is everyone Sandra Bodycoat 04-11-2008
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Posted by BEI Design on April 13, 2008, 6:07 pm
Pogonip wrote:
> BEI Design wrote:

> Oh, yes, ration stamp books! My dad got extra gas stamps
> because he was a doctor and in those days, most of his
> appointments were housecalls.
> My mother canned in the oven, too, and one time she was
> canning meat (of all things!!!) and the door blew off the
> oven. Very dangerous in more ways than one.

I'm glad you remember that weird process too, sometimes I
think it might have been a figment of an overactive
three-year-old's imagination. I wonder whatever possessed
anyone to invent that? Perhaps there was no metal to make a
proper canning pressure cooker? My Mom never canned anything
else in her entire life AFAICT.

> My father was often paid in food by the farmers he looked
> after. We got bushels of fruit (apples, I remember) and
> vegetables, and the occasional chicken.

I don't ever remember being hungry, but I know many food
items were extremely scarce. Sugar was black-marketed. We
knew a family in our little town who were exposed for
hoarding sugar in the attic.

Beverly



Posted by Juno on April 13, 2008, 9:25 pm
BEI Design wrote:

>
> I don't ever remember being hungry, but I know many food
> items were extremely scarce. Sugar was black-marketed. We
> knew a family in our little town who were exposed for
> hoarding sugar in the attic.
>
> Beverly
>
>
I don't remember a lack of good food. Many people had gardens and grew
lots of veggies. We got fruit from local orchards and because we lived
on Eastern Long Island, NY, there was plenty of fish and shell fish to
be had. My brothers and I used to go clamming frequently and fishing
from a pier at the beach. We were only 1 block from the beach. Mom did a
lot of baking so we had sweet yeast cakes, they used less sugar. There
was always hoarding by some people but not very common if IRC. The thing
is we we all in the same boat and people were very concerned because
every family had someone fighting overseas. The other thing is we
weren't bombarded with 24 hour news. The news we heard was more
important I think because of it. Now we have so many news channels on TV
that I think people tend to tune out what's important after awhile. It
loses meaning to a lot of people. I must say though that people have a
greater feeling of concern and support for the troops then they did
during Viet Nam.
Juno

Posted by BEI Design on April 13, 2008, 11:21 pm
Juno wrote:

<snip> The
> other thing is we weren't bombarded with 24 hour news.
> The news we heard was more important I think because of
> it. Now we have so many news channels on TV that I think
> people tend to tune out what's important after awhile. It
> loses meaning to a lot of people.

I agree that the TV news trivializes important events. Just
look at the coverage leading up to the U.S. election.

> I must say though that
> people have a greater feeling of concern and support for
> the troops then they did during Viet Nam. Juno

Yes, I think so too, and that's a very good thing. The way
the returning troops were treated in the seventies was
shameful.

Beverly



Posted by Pogonip on April 14, 2008, 4:24 am
BEI Design wrote:
> Juno wrote:
>
> <snip> The
>> other thing is we weren't bombarded with 24 hour news.
>> The news we heard was more important I think because of
>> it. Now we have so many news channels on TV that I think
>> people tend to tune out what's important after awhile. It
>> loses meaning to a lot of people.
>
> I agree that the TV news trivializes important events. Just
> look at the coverage leading up to the U.S. election.
>
>> I must say though that
>> people have a greater feeling of concern and support for
>> the troops then they did during Viet Nam. Juno
>
> Yes, I think so too, and that's a very good thing. The way
> the returning troops were treated in the seventies was
> shameful.
>
> Beverly
>
>
It's also shameful the way our government is treating those returning
from battle areas, sneaking the bodies in without allowing any publicity
at all, cutting the injured off from ongoing medical care, taking money
out of their pay if they were hospitalized. Those are the ones allowed
to come home, there are others whose stay has been extended two and even
three times.

--
Joanne
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Posted by Juno on April 14, 2008, 10:21 am

> It's also shameful the way our government is treating those returning
> from battle areas, sneaking the bodies in without allowing any publicity
> at all, cutting the injured off from ongoing medical care, taking money
> out of their pay if they were hospitalized. Those are the ones allowed
> to come home, there are others whose stay has been extended two and even
> three times.
>

Don't start me going on that one. I am ashamed of how this government
treats it servicemen and women. These young people are putting their
lives on the line for this country and then treated like trash, by the
government, when they need assistance. It's disgraceful.
I think I better stop right there.
Juno

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