Were you a child during WW2 or early post-war years?

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20. That was my birth year

I remember my mother waking me up all upset because we were going to war again.
My father had come home early from WWII because of a serious injury. She was scared he could be called up again.

Every single house on our street had Daddies who were home from war.

I remember being kept home from school to watch our new TV when MacArthur
came home.

My father in law ( who I met when I was 15) was home from the war and signed up for the AF reserves. He went to Korea. His mother never got over that.

I remember Memorial Day being the biggest holiday of the summer.

Some of my friends were raised by single mothers because daddy didn't come home.

The woman next door had a Gold Star in her window. We all knew what it meant.