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and mom were taking a nap.  Grandma and I had the radio turned on and were enjoying the program.  The date was December 7th.  I was probably having subconscious thoughts of Dec. 7th nineteen years before.  The announcers voice was crisp and clear - "We interrupt this program to bring you the following: Pearl Harbor has been bombed by Japanese war planes"  Grandma and I looked at each other.  We both knew that the U.S. was once more at war.  

 

I would like to have had a new car but couldn't afford it.  I did get a new set of tires before they were rationed.  They were Gamble tires and they lasted through the war.

 

1942 came in and everything was on war time basis.  I lost some of my farm land.  Didn't have a tractor and machinery and couldn't farm with horses.  Lost grassland too and was getting discouraged. 

 

It was the last part of July or  

 

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