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Roberta Wiatt

And World War II was kind of – it was something far away. I mean, we had to have gas rationing and the little books with the little slips of paper that you had to give to the people who sold the gas. And the coupons, you know, to get sugar or something. But World War II was far, far away. I don’t think we suffered. I don’t know how my parents, if they felt like there was anything. But I remember we collected scrap metal, my brother and the guy next door and Jimmy. They went in the woods and collected stuff. It was unreal. But that’s what we did to help with the war effort.

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