Young Boy At the Start of World War Two Remembers

Came from a very good loving family in a small Kansas town just as World War Two was about to break out, it was nineteen thirty nine As a very small child I remember hearing Walter Winchell, Gabriel Heater bring the news every night just a few years later, just about the time for us to all dine Dad was a shoemaker as they called it back then During the war he had German prisoners work for him on a base, and always said they seemed to be good men One whittled me an airplane out of balsum wood, dad said it was a B-29, and he had even painted it grey I never did see the prisoners on the base where we lived back then, but I recall the times vividly to this very day I had four older sisters, I was the youngest child by ten years and the only boy And I recall always being very loved and everything was to me as an older baby was nothing but joy Fore I do remember times spent in my wooden play pen and a red hall curtain would blow now and then Later when I was around five or six I remember mom and dad counting ration stamps while sitting on their beds, some for sugar, gasoline, different things One sister worked in an amunition plant and brought me home a miniature bomb painted silver and one made me a billfold one gave me a large penny...My what these reflections all brings Of course I remember the speach by President Roosevelt when he said we declared war and so many clips in movie theatres about how it was going Mom listening to Stella Dallas and Ma Perkins while she would be sewing These are some things that were just worth writing about and sharing with all of you here I've come to really enjoy meeting a whole lot of you and I will always be ready to lend you my ear