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You did good.  I love thinking about you doing all that.  My oldest sister was engaged to a nice fellow who was killed in Korea.  I remember both of your songs.

posted by TAPS. on August 12, 2018 at 8:11 PM | link to this | reply

One of my first concious moments of a larger world came from looking at Newsreel News at the movies during that time.

They were showing starving children at a red cross station or something in Korea. A little girl like me(children don't see differences of features) even with the hairribbon in her hair was gulping down milk like her life depended on it. I hated milk still do makes me want to be ill, but this child my age was so desperate she was drinking the stuff like it was nectar from the Gods. She had to be hungry....How come anyone was ever hungry, I had never been hungry in my life.

posted by Kabu on August 12, 2018 at 11:36 AM | link to this | reply

Thank you for this.

If only the busy generations today, the ones making the rules, the ones defining the predominant society, had a better connection with the past. So much has been lost from the cultural memory, pushed out by the busy-ness, the high-tech, the flashy entertainments, the shallowness of goals, the sense of entitled privilege...  Our society has more and more shallow roots, it seems to me.

posted by Ciel on August 12, 2018 at 9:40 AM | link to this | reply

That was a great thing you did for them. No matter how much the times change, war themes continue to endure.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on August 12, 2018 at 7:14 AM | link to this | reply