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invited us out one Sunday for dinner. After that we spent a lot of Sundays together as you will remember. We did a lot of pheasant hunting.
We joined the Grange and had a lot of good times there too. Pot luck suppers and Oyster Soup suppers. The war was on and boys were leaving for induction quite often. Maybe that is why we were all just a little closer together. Everyone had plenty to eat. If we had had lots of money we couldn't have purchased new appliances or cars. Every thing was geared to fighting Germany and Japan.
I've always said that Minnietta started all that mess with Japan, then four years later Jeanette came along and put a stop to it.
August 15, 1945. It was probably around eight o'clock PM when mom and I started to Huron. Jeanette was wanting to join the "end of the war" celebration. When we drove into Huron there was toilet paper from one end of town to the other. Some one would start a roll and throw it. Someone else
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