War
oward the end of my six- teenth year, on December 7, 1941, World War II began. President Roosevelt called it
“a day that will live in infamy.” For a girl my age the war came as a complete shock. The possibility of war may have been considered by adults but for us teenagers our world was swing music, bobbysox, Frank Sinatra and boyfriends. Soon many of our potential boyfriends were going off to fight and die in Europe or the Pacific. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor none of us had ever heard of the place and had no idea where it was. As for the Holocaust going on all over Europe and especially in death camps in Germany and Poland we knew nothing until later. When we did know, our military was already fighting its way across Europe to the rescue. Sadly rescue came too late for millions. 48
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