Surrounded by Sacrifices
Oct 05, 2021
3 minutes
By William Pepe
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It was a time of worldwide war. The United States needed the total support of its citizens, including its schoolchildren.
I was just reaching the “age of reason”—learning to read, learning to understand what the radio announcer was saying, looking at pictures in newspapers and magazines, and asking questions that grown-ups couldn’t answer.
My parents, siblings and I lived in Boston’s West End during the first years of World War
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